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2007 Bulgarian Local Elections
Local elections were held in all municipalities in Bulgaria on 28 October 2007 (first round) and on 4 November 2007 (second round). Voters elected municipal mayors, village mayors and members of municipal councils of 265 municipalities. Results BSP won 11 regional mayorships, GERB, the new party of Sofia Mayor Boyko Borisov, won 10 mayorships, SDS won 5 and DPS 1. References {{Bulgarian elections Local elections in Bulgaria, 2007 2007 elections in Bulgaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgaria 2007 Local Elections Oblast Mayors
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the tenth largest within the European Union and the List of European countries by area, sixteenth-largest country in Europe by area. Sofia is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city; other major cities include Burgas, Plovdiv, and Varna, Bulgaria, Varna. One of the earliest societies in the lands of modern-day Bulgaria was the Karanovo culture (6,500 BC). In the 6th to 3rd century BC, the region was a battleground for ancient Thracians, Persians, Celts and Ancient Macedonians, Macedonians; stability came when the Roman Empire conquered the region in AD 45. After the Roman state splintered, trib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Bulgarian Local Elections
Local elections were held in all municipalities in Bulgaria on 23 October 2011 (first round) and on 30 October 2011 (second round). Voters elected municipal mayors, village mayors and members of municipal councils of 265 municipalities. They were held alongside the 2011 presidential election. Results GERB won 14 regional mayorships, BSP 8, DPS 1. 4 other incumbent mayors won without the backing of those three parties. References {{Bulgarian elections 2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ... 2011 elections in Bulgaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Bulgarian Local Elections
Local elections were held in all municipalities in Bulgaria on 26 October 2003 (first round) and on 2 November 2003 (second round). Voters elected municipal mayors, village mayors and members of municipal councils of 265 municipalities. Results BSP received roughly 33% of the vote, SDS 21%, DPS and NDSV 10%. This was the first time that the BSP received the most votes for elections to the Sofia City Council References {{Bulgarian elections 2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ... 2003 elections in Bulgaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the tenth largest within the European Union and the List of European countries by area, sixteenth-largest country in Europe by area. Sofia is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city; other major cities include Burgas, Plovdiv, and Varna, Bulgaria, Varna. One of the earliest societies in the lands of modern-day Bulgaria was the Karanovo culture (6,500 BC). In the 6th to 3rd century BC, the region was a battleground for ancient Thracians, Persians, Celts and Ancient Macedonians, Macedonians; stability came when the Roman Empire conquered the region in AD 45. After the Roman state splintered, trib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia City Council
The Sofia City Council is the legislative body of Sofia Municipality. It consists of 61 councilmen elected via proportional vote by constituents registered within the municipality. Committees The Council has fourteen permanent committees: * Assembly of the Territory, Architecture, and Housing policy (Chairperson: Sevdalina Petrova, Independent); * Finances and Budget (Chairperson: Dimitar Vuchev, GERB-SDS); * Healthcare and Social policy (Chairperson: Vanya Grigorova, Independent); * Protection of the Environment, agriculture and forests (Chairperson: Krasimir Galabov, Bulgaria Can); * Regional self-governing and regulatory use (Chairperson: Ivan Videlov, BSPzB); * Education, Culture, Science and Cultural diversity (Chairperson: Diyan Stamatov, GERB-SDS); * Economy, Property and Digital transformation (Chairperson: Proshko Proshkov, GERB-SDS); * Engineer infrastructure and Energy planning (Chairperson: Aleksandar Aleksandrov, ITN Independent Television News (ITN) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yordanka Fandakova
Yordanka Asenova Fandakova (; born 12 April 1962) is a Bulgarian politician and former Mayor of Sofia. She was the first woman to hold this position. She was elected on 15 November 2009, after defeating the Bulgarian Socialist Party contender Georgi Kadiev. Fandakova is a member of the conservative GERB party. Early life and education Fandakova was born in Samokov, Sofia Province. She graduated the 35th Russian Language School in Sofia and the University of Sofia, majoring in Russian Studies. She is married and has a daughter. She was a teacher (from 1985) and head teacher (since 1998) at the 73rd secondary school for foreign languages "Vladislav Gramatik" in Sofia. She became Deputy Mayor of Sofia Municipality of Culture, Education, Sports and Prevention of Abuse in 2007. Political career Fandakova was elected Member of Parliament for GERB in the National Assembly in the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 5 July 2009. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria)
The Union of Democratic Forces (, СДС/SDS) is a political party in Bulgaria, founded in 1989 as a union of several political organizations in opposition to the communist government. The Union was transformed into a single unified party with the same name. The SDS is a member of the European People's Party (EPP). In the 1990s the party had the largest membership in the country, with one million members, but has since splintered into a number of small parties totaling no more than 40,000 members. The SDS proper had 12,000 members in 2016. History Dissident groups formed under the faltering regime of Todor Zhivkov in the late 1980s were the basis for the Union. Once Zhivkov fell, a loose political confederation was envisioned where constituent groups could continue to work for their own cause, while the coordinating council would include three members from each organization. The Longtime dissident philosopher Zhelyu Zhelev, who would later become Bulgaria's president, was elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democrats For A Strong Bulgaria
Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria () is a list of political parties in Bulgaria, political party in Bulgaria established by former Bulgarian Prime Minister Ivan Kostov (1997–2001). History Kostov resigned as chairman of the United Democratic Forces after a painful election defeat in June 2001 to Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's newly established National Movement for Stability and Progress, National Movement for Simeon II. The UDF had suffered heavily from allegations of corruption and increased unemployment after having carried out economic reforms during its four-year term. With time 29 (out of 51) UDF MPs including Kostov grew increasingly dissatisfied with the new UDF leadership of chairwoman Nadezhda Mihailova, who was the foreign minister in Kostov's own government. Following another defeat for the UDF in the 2003 local elections and after Nadezhda Mihailova's refusal to bear the responsibility and resign, the group of 29 around Kostov announced their departure from the UDF and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Free Democrats
The Union of Free Democrats (, ''Sajuz na svobodnite demokrati'') is a conservative political party in Bulgaria, led by Stefan Sofiyanski. It contested the 2001 elections as part of the United Democratic Forces electoral alliance, which picked up 51 of 240 seats. It joined the Bulgarian People's Union, that at the 2005 Bulgarian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 25 June 2005, for the 240 members of the National Assembly (Bulgaria), National Assembly. According to exit polls, the Bulgarian Socialist Party, Socialists had a lead with around 31%, but without ... won 5.7% of the popular vote and 13 out of 240 seats. Election results National Assembly References External linksOfficial web site Conservative parties in Bulgaria {{Bulgaria-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Zaimov
Martin Zaimov (born 16 April 1962) is a Bulgarian financier and politician, former deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (1997-2003) and candidate for mayor of Sofia in 2007. Zaimov was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where his mother Klavdia Zaimova was working at the World Health Organization. His father was the British long-time Associated Press foreign correspondent Michael Goldsmith. Zaimova and Goldsmith later divorced. Martin Zaimov belongs to the noted Zaimov family: he is the grandson of General Vladimir Zaimov and the great-grandson of revolutionary Stoyan Zaimov. Zaimov graduated in electronic technology at the Technical University of Sofia, economics at Birkbeck College and European Studies at the London School of Economics. Zaimov has three children, Sara (born in 1993), Thomas (1998) and Zacharie (2009). Martin Zaimov emigrated from Bulgaria in 1986 but came back after the collapse of the communist regime. He then worked for the French branch of Coopers & Lyb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonia Parvanova
Antonyia Parvanova (; born 26 April 1962, in Dobrich) is a Bulgarian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament in 2007 and from 2009 until 2014. She is a member of the National Movement Simeon II, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. Political career Parvanova became a Member of the European Parliament on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union. During her time in parliament, she served on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (2007, 2009–2014) and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (2009–2014). In addition to her committee assignments, Parvanova was part of the parliament's delegations for relations with Canada and to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean from 2009 until 2014. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
