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25th Multi-member Constituency
The 25th Multi-member Constituency ( bg, 25-ти многомандатен избирателен район) is one of the five Bulgarian constituencies whose borders are different from the administrative division. It comprises several regions in Western and North-Western Sofia. Background In the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election the 24th Multi-member Constituency – Sofia-23 elected 11 members to the Bulgarian National Assembly: 10 of which were by proportionality vote and 1 was by first-past-the-post voting. Members in the Bulgarian National Assembly * Through first-past-the-post voting * Through proportionality vote Elections 2009 election * proportionality vote * first-past-the-post voting See also *2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election *Politics of Bulgaria *List of Bulgarian Constituencies Bulgaria is divided into 31 multi-member constituencies for the purposes of elections to the National Assembly. Background Bulgaria is divided into 28 provinces. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia 25 MIR
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and has many mineral springs, such as the Sofia Central Mineral Baths. It has a humid continental climate. Being in the centre of the Balkans, it is midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and closest to the Aegean Sea. Known as Serdica in Antiquity and Sredets in the Middle Ages, Sofia has been an area of human habitation since at least 7000 BC. The recorded history of the city begins with the attestation of the conquest of Serdica by the Roman Republic in 29 BC from the Celtic tribe Serdi. During the decline of the Roman Empire, the city was raided by Huns, Visigoths, Avars and Slavs. In 809, Serdica was incorporated into the Bulgarian Empire by Khan Krum and became known as Sredets. In 1018, the Byzantines ended Bulgarian rule unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Coalition
The Blue Coalition ( bg, Синята коалиция, Sinyata koalitsia) was a centre-right electoral alliance in Bulgaria, whose members were the Union of Democratic Forces (SDS), Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) and three smaller parties. The members of the European Parliament elected on the coalition's list sat with the group of the European People's Party. Members 2009 * Union of Democratic Forces (SDS) — Съюз на демократичните сили (СДС) * Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) — Демократи за силна България (ДСБ) * United Agrarians — Обединени земеделци * Bulgarian Social Democratic Party (BSDP) — Българска социалдемократическа партия (БСДП) * Radical Democratic Party in Bulgaria (RDPB) — Радикалдемократическа партия в България (РДПБ) Elections results *In the 2009 European Parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Bulgarian Constituencies
Bulgaria is divided into 31 multi-member constituencies for the purposes of elections to the National Assembly. Background Bulgaria is divided into 28 provinces. Most of these correspond exactly to the constituencies, but Sofia City Province is divided in 3 and Plovdiv Province is divided in 2. Plovdiv Province is divided between the 16th MMC (consisting of the City of Plovdiv) and the 17th MMC (consisting of the rest of the province). Sofia City Province (not to be confused with Sofia Province) is divided between the 23rd (southern Sofia), 24th (central and eastern Sofia), and 25th (western Sofia) MMCs. In addition to their names, constituencies are numbered from 1 to 31 according to their order in the Cyrillic alphabet. There are a total of 240 seats in the National Assembly, and each constituency elects between 4 (the guaranteed minimum number of seats in a constituency) and 16 members of parliament. List of constituencies * 1st MMC – Blagoevgrad * 2nd MMC – B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of Bulgaria
The politics of Bulgaria take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.Bulgaria Library of Congress Country Study, ''Government and politics - overview'', p. 16 Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. After 1989, after forty-five years of single party system, Bulgaria had an unstable party system, dominated by democratic parties and opposition to socialists - the Union of Democratic Forces and several personalistic parties and the post-communist Bulgarian Socialist Party or its creatures, which emerged for a short period of time in the past decade, personalistic parties could be seen as the governing Simeon II's NDSV party and Boyko Borisov's GERB party. Bulgaria has generally good freedom of speech and hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Indzhov
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Stefan may refer to: * Stefan (given name) * Stefan (surname) * Ștefan, a Romanian given name and a surname * Štefan, a Slavic given name and surname * Stefan (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer * Stefan Heym, pseudonym of German writer Helmut Flieg (1913–2001) * Stefan (honorific), a Serbian title * ''Stefan'' (album), a 1987 album by Dennis González See also * Stefan number, a dimensionless number used in heat transfer * Sveti Stefan or Saint Stefan, a small islet in Montenegro * Stefanus (other) Stefanus may refer to: * A variation of the given name Stephen, particularly in regard to: ** Saint Stephen, first martyr of Christianity * St. Stefanus, Ghent, a Catholic church in Belgium dedicated to Saint Stephen * Stefanus Prize, a human righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Mihailova
Ekaterina Ivanova Mihaylova ( bg, Екатерина Иванова Михайлова, born 24 October 1956) is a Bulgarian politician, who was the leader of the UDF between 2001 and 2002. Life Mihaylova was born in Pazardzhik, in the family of a lawyer and a physician. She graduated from Sofia University in 1978 with a degree in legal studies and started working as an attorney in 1980. Her political career began in the 1990s when she gained prominence as a member of the UDF. Alongside Yordan Sokolov, she is considered to be among the staunchest supporters of Ivan Kostov and his policies. In June 2001, Mihaylova succeeded Kostov as the leader of the UDF, but in March 2002 lost her position to Nadezhda Mihaylova at the 13th national conference of the party. In 2004 she became one of the founders of the DSB. Mihaylova has been a member of five National Parliaments. On 6 November 2007, she was honored with the academic title "honorary professor of New Bulgarian University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ognyan Gerdzhikov
Ognyan Stefanov Gerdzhikov ( bg, Огнян Стефанов Герджиков) (born 19 March 1946) is a Bulgarian politician and jurist who served as the interim Prime Minister from 27 January 2017 to 4 May 2017, following the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the failure of Bulgarian parties to form a government. Biography He is a graduate of Sofia University, beginning his career as a lecturer at its juridical faculty in 1979. Since 1994 he has been a professor of legal studies. Between 5 July 2001 and 4 February 2005, Gerdzhikov served as the chairman of the Bulgarian Parliament. He has been a member of Parliament twice (while affiliated with NDSV). Gerdzhikov is a holder of the prestigious Order of Stara Planina, receiving the distinction from former president Georgi Parvanov. In addition to his native Bulgarian, Gerdzhikov is also conversant in German and Russian. His hobbies include table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalina Krumova
Kalina Venelinova Krumova ( Bulgarian: Калина Венелинова Крумова; born 7 January 1985, Burgas, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian politician, television presenter and journalist. She was elected to the 41st National Assembly of Bulgaria as a member of the Ataka Party in the 2009 parliamentary election. She is the youngest MP in Bulgaria. Biography Education Krumova completed her secondary education at a school for Romance languages in Burgas, where she specialised in French. She then studied for a BA in world economy (with a thesis on "Economics of a socio-cultural sphere") at the local university, and later took a master's degree in journalism and mass media. As well as her native Bulgarian, Krumova is fluent in French and has a working knowledge of English and Italian. Career Kalina Krumova was host for the SKAT TV show ''Early Buzz''. Politics Krumova stood for the Ataka Party in the Bulgarian parliamentary election and was duly elected. She was the youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petar Kurumbashev
Petar Kurumbashev is a Bulgarian politician who served as a Member of European Parliament from 2014 to 2019 Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in ... from the Bulgaria constituency. References MEPs for Bulgaria 2014–2019 Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Bulgaria-MEP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Panayotova
Monika Panayotova ( bg, Моника Панайотова) is a Doctor of Political Science, with interests in the field of the EU security and defence policy. Bulgarian politician – Monika Panayotova has been appointed as Deputy Minister for the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2018, responsible for the relations with the European Parliament during the Bulgaria's presidency (the so-called - Ministre Délégué) since June 28, 2017. In the period 2009–2012, Monika Panayotova was member o41st National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria chairwoman of Committee on European Affairs and Oversight of the European Funds and member of the Foreign Policy and Defence Committee. During the period 2012 – 2014, she was a member of thEuropean Parliamentand participated in the Committee on Budgetary Control, the Committee on Culture and Education and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. Public figure – from 2014 to June 2017, she was General Manager oInno Advisers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order, Lawfulness, Justice
Order, Law and Justice ( bg, Ред, законност и справедливост, Red, zakonnost i spravedlivost, abbreviated as ''RZS'') was a conservative political party in Bulgaria. Its main focus is on fighting crime and corruption. It won the minimum ten seats in the National Assembly at the 2009 election, making it the smallest of the six parties in the legislature. Later some of the deputies left the parliamentary group and it broke the minimum of ten, which inevitably made all parliamentary representatives of the party independent deputies. It is led by Yane Yanev, who has frequently revealed classified documents backing up his claims of corruption. The party is close to the British Conservative Party. The logo of Order, Law and Justice is a blue and orange checkerboard pattern. History The party was founded by renaming and reforming the National Association - Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union (NS-BZNS), which had been part of the United Democratic Forces, decide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lider (Bulgaria)
Bulgarian Democratic Center ( bg, Български Демократичен Център – an acronym for "Bulgarian Democratic Center"), formerly (''Lider'' – ''Liberal Initiative for Democratic European Development'') is a Bulgarian political party registered in 2007. Participation in elections Lider participated in the 2009 European Parliament election together with the center-right political party Novoto Vreme and gathered 5.7% of the vote, which was just under the electoral quota. Lider participated in the 2009 parliamentary election outside of any right-wing Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, autho ... coalition, winning only 3.3% of the votes and therefore failing to secure parliamentary representation. Lider did not nominate a candidate for the 2011 presid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
