Georgi Atanasov (politician)

Georgi Ivanov Atanasov (Bulgarian: Георги Иванов Атанасов; born June 10, 1933, the Oblast Pleven ) is a Bulgarian politician and former Prime Minister.

Biography

Study and youth functionary

Atanassow holds a degree in history at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, from which he graduated in 1953 with the graduation. Subsequently, he was a functionary in the Communist Youth Union of the then ruling Bulgarian Communist Party ( BKP ) ( Balgarska Komunisticeska Partija ).

In 1966 he was first elected a deputy of the fifth Grand National Assembly, which he then belonged to the 9th election period in 1990. He was secretary of the Central Committee (CC ) of the BCP in 1968.

Advance to the Prime Minister and sentencing

On March 21, 1986, he was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers as the successor of Grisha Filipov. As such, he assisted on 10 November 1989 the overthrow of the Council of State and the Secretary General of the BKP, Todor Zhivkov, by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov. Even in the last weeks of his tenure were the first steps for more rights of minorities in Bulgaria, in particular the Turkish minority, I promise.

On February 3, 1990, he handed over the office of prime minister to the former Minister of Foreign Economic Relations in his cabinet, Andrei Lukanow.

In November 1992 he was sentenced by a court for embezzlement to ten years in prison, but in 1994 released on medical parole.