Weschdi Raschidow

Weschdi Raschidow

Weschdi Letif Rashidov (also Vesdi Letif Rashidov written Bulgarian Вежди Летиф Рашидов * 14. December 1951 in Dimitrovgrad , Bulgaria ) is a Turkish-born sculptor and politician of the GERB -party in Bulgaria. He is considered one of the best-known critics of Ahmed Dogan , also of Turkish origin , the chairman of the movement for rights and freedoms . Raschidow is a member of the Salon d'Automne in Paris.

Life

Weschdi Raschidow was born in 1951 in the city of Dimitrovgrad, in southwestern Bulgaria. His mother was a well-known folk singer for Bulgarian and Turkish folklore songs, his father was a mining engineer. In 1953 his family moved to Haskovo . Rashidov attended elementary school there. When he was in fourth grade, his mother died in a car accident. He spent the following years up to 7th grade in the orphanage in Studen Kaldenez .

After graduating from the seventh grade, he applied to the Art High School in Sofia , but failed the entrance exams. His father then sent him to the vocational school for mining electrical engineering in Madan for training . After a year he reapplied to the Art High School in Sofia and this time passed the entrance exams. In 1978 he graduated from the Sofia Art School .

In 2002 Raschidow was awarded the highest Bulgarian Order of Merit “Stara Planina” .

Weschdi Raschidow had over 40 independent exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad. Some of his works have received awards, including the Bulgarian National Radio Prize and the Bulgarian Film Festival Prize.

In 2010 he became an honorary citizen of Dimitrovgrad.

politics

Although Weschdi Raschidow is a Turk, he is one of the best known critics of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (BRF) party, which is dominated by the Turkish minority in Bulgaria, and its chairman Ahmed Dogan. Rashidov primarily criticizes the concentration of political and economic power in the hands of its chairman and the widespread corruption in the upper level of the party leadership. He also criticizes the discrepancy between the wealth of the party leadership and the poverty of its party base.

In the parliamentary elections in 2009 he led the list for proportional representation and majority voting of the party GERB in the BRF stronghold Kardzhali against Ahmed Dogan and his party Movement for Rights and Freedoms. He lost in a direct duel with Ahmed Dogan in the majority electoral list, but was still elected to parliament via the proportional representation list.

After the Bulgarian parliamentary election in 2009, which was won by the GERB party, Weschdi Rashidov was sworn in as Minister of Culture in the government of Boyko Borissow on July 27th .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The new Bulgarian government , interview with Alexander Andreev on www.dw-world.de, from July 28, 2009
2. ↑ Interview with Weschdi Raschidow (Bulgarian)
3. ↑ Weschdi Raschidow - with the order Stara Planina
4. ↑ Вежди Рашидов става "почетен гражданин" на Димитровград
5. ↑ www.gerb.bg ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2009 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. 

Web links

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predecessor	Office	successor
Stefan Danailow	Minister of Culture of Bulgaria July 27, 2009–13. March 2013	Vladimir Penev