Petar Stoyanov (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Petar Stefanov Stoyanov (Bulgarian: ) (born May 25, 1952) is a former President of Bulgaria from 1997 until 2002. He was elected as a candidate of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF). He did not succeed in the next presidential elections and alter leaving office refrained from politics for a while but later became an MP in 2005 and was Chairmen of UDF from October 1, 2005 to May 22, 2007.Quickily after the political changes in Bulgaria at the end of 1989 from communism to democratic rule Stoyanov embarked on a political career (1990), co-founding and chairing a Democracy Club in Plovdiv. Later in the same year, he became spokesman of the Plovdiv Coordinating Council of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF), a new Bulgarian coalitional opposition to the former ruling political parties (BKP and BZNS).