Georgi Parvanov

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Georgi Parvanov (2008)
Signature of Georgi Parvanov

Georgi Parvanow ( Bulgarian Георги Първанов ; born June 28, 1957 in Sirischnik , Pernik Oblast ) is a Bulgarian politician and was Bulgarian President between 2002 and 2012 .

Life

Georgi Parvanow comes from a small farming family and studied history at the University of Sofia . After receiving his doctorate in 1988, he worked at the Historical Institute of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP, since 1990 Bulgarian Socialist Party - BSP), which he joined in 1981, and for the Bulgarian Communist State Security Authority . In 1994 he moved into parliament and became deputy chairman, and finally chairman of the BSP in 1996 (until 2001).

president

On November 18, 2001 Parvanov was able to win the runoff election in the election for Bulgarian President against the incumbent official Petar Stoyanov . He was sworn in as president in January 2002. Like his predecessor, he was able to make himself heard primarily through foreign policy issues and became the most popular Bulgarian politician. While the then Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Pasi supported the US-led coalition in the run-up to the Iraq war , Parvanov warned of possible consequences for the country's imminent EU accession.

When he was re-elected in October 2006, he was initially able to benefit from the electoral success of his party in the 2005 parliamentary elections. On October 29, 2006, he was confirmed in office in a runoff election with a clear majority. For the first time in 16 years a statesman was re-elected in Bulgaria.

On July 24, 2007 Parvanov pardoned the five nurses convicted in the so-called HIV trial in Libya and extradited to Bulgaria, Kristijana Waltschewa, Nasja Nenova, Walentina Siropulo, Valya Chervenyashka and Sneschana Dimitrova, and the Palestinian doctor Ashraf al-Hajuj, who had been working since June 2007 is a Bulgarian citizen on arrival in Sofia.

On November 11, 2011 Parvanov announced that he would return to party politics after the end of his term as president.

Scandals

His presidencies are marked by several scandals. In 2007 it was found that he had worked for the Bulgarian State Security Agency DS under the cover name Goze until 1990 .

In February 2009 he asked the new Russian Patriarch Kyrill I to intervene in the interests and internal fragmentation of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church . In doing so, he violated the Bulgarian constitution, which calls on the state to maintain religious neutrality and parity. This request followed a decision by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg , which asked the Bulgarian state to resolve the problem with the registration of the "alternative synod" within three months. Back in Bulgaria, Parvanov said that the decisions of the Strasbourg court did not apply to the Bulgarian state.

In December 2010, an investigation revealed that almost half of the Bulgarian ambassadors and consuls after the fall of the Wall were members of the notorious Communist State Security (DS). There are currently 13 Bulgarian ambassadors in EU countries such as Germany, Great Britain and Spain. Georgi Parvanov, who is also a former employee of the DS , refused the demands of the Bulgarian Prime Minister Borisov and Foreign Minister Mladenov to recall them. He is responsible for the appointment of Bulgarian ambassadors and 97 out of 127 of the ambassadors he appointed were employees of the State Security.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Georgi Parvanow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sabine Riedel: Bulgaria. President in Wolfgang Ismayr (Ed.): The political systems of Eastern Europe. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-17181-4 , pp. 680-683.
  2. ↑ spiegel.de
  3. ↑ Биляна Рилска (Biljana Rilska): Първанов: Връщам се в БСП и ще дам шанс на хората да гласуват за мен. In: ДНЕВНИК . November 14, 2011, accessed October 18, 2012 (Bulgarian, free registration required).
  4. ↑ Goze, Agent Goze. In: Bulgarisches Wirtschaftsblatt and Südosteuropäischer Report. July 31, 2007, archived from the original ; accessed on October 18, 2012 (full text only for subscribers to the print edition).
  5. ↑ Президентът призова руския патриарх да се намеси в българските църковни дела. In: Mediapool.bg. February 6, 2009, archived from the original ; Retrieved October 18, 2012 (Bulgarian).
  6. ^ Petar Kostadinov: Macedonia does not like Sofia mayor's plan for “business invasion”. In: The Sofia Echo . February 10, 2009, accessed on October 18, 2012 (English): "... and the Strasbourg's court ruling did not oblige the Bulgarian Government to do anything ..."
  7. ↑ Zoran Arbutina: Spy or Ambassador? In: Deutsche Welle Online. December 16, 2010, accessed October 18, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Почти половината посланици и консули са агенти на ДС. In: Mediapool.bg. December 14, 2010, accessed October 18, 2012 (Bulgarian).
  9. ↑ See: Many Bulgarian ambassadors are ex-secret service agents ; Bulgarian PM Pledges to Fire Discredited Ambassadors ; С тези хора трябва да се разделим ; Bulgarian premier wants to fire former Stasi employees from the Foreign Office , RIA Novosti, December 16, 2010.
  10. ↑ Дипломатическа служба (ДС) , capital.bg , December 18, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Parvanov, Georgi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Георги Първанов
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian President
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Sirizhnik , Pernik District, Bulgaria