Reneta Indschowa

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Reneta Iwanowa Indschowa (also written Reneta Ivanova Indzova , Bulgarian Иванова Инджова ; born July 6, 1953 in Nova Sagora ) is a Bulgarian politician and former Prime Minister .

Studies and professional career

Indschowa studied economics at the Karl Marx Institute for Economics in Sofia , from which she graduated in 1975 . This was followed by her promotion to Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D. ) in political economy .

In 1992 she initially worked for the Agency for Economic Development and Economic Programs. She was then a department director at the United Bulgarian Bank, before being a member of the board of directors and executive director of the privatization agency from 1992 to 1993 .

In 1995 she worked as a visiting scholar for Business and Administrative Management at the Eisenhower Foundation in the USA . Between 1999 and 2001 she lived again in the USA. During this time she was also a temporary advisor on Balkan policy to the then Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush .

Political career

MPs

Indschowa began her political career in 1990 after the collapse of the communist government of Todor Zhivkov . At first she was co-author of the founding acts of the anti-communist Union of Democratic Forces ( Sajus na Demokratieitschnite Sili ), which was newly founded in 1990 .

In 1990 she was elected as a member of the National Assembly, where she represented the interests of the SDS until 1992.

Prime Minister and Presidential Candidate

After the resignation of Lyuben Berov , she was appointed acting Prime Minister by President Schelju Schelew on October 17, 1994 . She handed over this office to Schan Widenow after the Socialist Party's election victory on January 25, 1995 .

In November 1995 she ran for the office of mayoress of Sofia, but lost her party friend Stefan Sofijanski in third place . On March 3, 1997, she was co-founder of the United Political Reform Party movement, which she also chaired.

After her return from the USA on March 4, 2001, she became a member of the National Executive Council of the Democratic Alliance Party and a short time later also its chairman.

In the presidential election of November 11, 2001 , she ran for the Democratic Alliance Party with the support of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms . As the fourth best candidate, she achieved just 4.9 percent of the vote and was eliminated after the first round of voting.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Election results for the mayoral election of Sofia 1995 ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.math.bas.bg
  2. "Reneta Indzhova To Lead The Democratic Alliance" , article in Standartnews from March 25, 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.standartnews.com
  3. ^ Election results of the 2001 presidential election