Georgi Parvanov

Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a Bulgarian historian and politician who was President of Bulgaria from 2002 to 2012. He was elected after defeating the incumbent Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the November 2001 presidential election, and he took office onJanuary 2002. He was reelected in a landslide victory in 2006, becoming the first Bulgarian president to serve two terms. Parvanov was a supporter of Bulgarias membership in NATO and the European Union.

Georgi Parvanov was born in the village of Sirishtnik, Pernik Province onJune 1957 and he grew up in the nearby village of Kosacha. In 1975 Parvanov graduated from the secondary school in Pernik and in 1981 he finished his undergraduate education at the Sofia University, by gaining a major in history, specializing in the history of the Bulgarian Communist Party. In 1988 Parvanov defended his doctoral thesis in history, which is titled Dimitar Blagoev and the Bulgarian national question 18791917.

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