Georgi Atanasov

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the composer see Georgi Atanassow (composer) .

Georgi Ivanov Atanassow ( Bulgarian : Георги Иванов Атанасов; born July 25, 1933 in Plovdiv Oblast ) is a Bulgarian politician and former Prime Minister .

biography

Studies and youth functionary

Atanasov studied history at the St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia , which he graduated in 1953 . He then became a functionary in the Communist Youth Union of the then ruling Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) ( Balgarska Komunisticeska Partija ).

In 1966 he was elected for the first time as a member of the 5th Grand National Assembly, to which he then belonged until the 9th electoral term in 1990. In 1968 he became secretary of the Central Committee (ZK) of the BKP.

Promotion to Prime Minister and conviction

On March 21, 1986 he became the successor of Grisha Filipov of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers . As such, he supported the overthrow of the Chairman of the State Council and Secretary General of the BKP, Todor Zhivkov , by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenow on November 10, 1989 . In the last few weeks of his term of office, the first steps for more rights of minorities in Bulgaria, especially the Turkish minority, were promised.

On February 3, 1990, he handed over the office of Prime Minister to the former Minister for Foreign Economic Relations in his cabinet, Andrei Lukanov .

In November 1992 a court sentenced him to ten years imprisonment for embezzlement , but released from prison in 1994 on health grounds.

Web links

• Biographical information in rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Resurrecting Ghostly Rivalries. Article in TIME magazine on January 29, 1990
2. ↑ Around The Bloc - Bulgaria. Article in TIME magazine on February 12, 1990

predecessor	Office	successor
Grisha Filipov	Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1986–1990	Andrei Lukanov