Philip Dimitrov
Filip Dimitrov Dimitrov ( Filip Dimitrov Dimitrov wrote, Bulgarian Филип Димитров Димитров ) ( born March 31, 1955 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian writer, diplomat, politician and former Prime Minister.
Study and career
After education at the English High School of Sofia he graduated from in 1973 to study law at the Kliment of Ohrid University of Sofia, from which he graduated with the graduation of 1977. He then completed post-graduate studies in individual and group psychotherapy.
From 1979 to 1990, he is then. Worked as a lawyer in Sofia, as well as such from 1989 to 1990 secretary of the bar association
Political career
Chairman of the SDS party and Prime Minister
Dimitrov began his political career in 1990 after the collapse of the communist government of Todor Zhivkov in 1990 as a member of the newly formed anti-communist Union of Democratic Forces (SDS ). From August to December 1990, he was Deputy Chairman and December 1990 to December 1994 Chairman of the National Coordination Council of SDS and thus Leader of the Party.
On November 4, 1991, he was appointed by President Zhelev Schelju as the successor of Dimitar Popov to the Prime Minister. This office he held until December 30, 1992, when he was forced to resign because the Movement for Rights and Freedoms him withdrew their support.
On 15 January 1992, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has been recognized under this name by the government Dimitrov. During his tenure, the former Prime Minister Andrei Lukanow was arrested on suspicion of illegal enrichment in July 1992.
As chairman of the SDS, he represented a tough anti-communist course, who refused any cooperation with the Bulgarian Socialist Party, the successor to the Bulgarian Communist Party. The efforts made by him attempts to overthrow the successor government of Liuben Berov, which was supported by the BSP and the DPS, were unsuccessful, however.
After the severe defeat of the SDS in the election for the National Assembly in December 1994, he had to relinquish his position as party leader of Ivan Kostov.
In February 1997 he became a member of the Executive Council of the SDS for the relationship with non-governmental organizations. After his return from the USA in 2002 he was a member of the National Council of the SDS in March.
Deputy, diplomat and Deputy Parliament Speaker
In the following years he was also elected from 1992 to 1997 as a deputy of the National Assembly, where he represented the interests of the constituency SDS Sofia. As a parliamentarian, he was a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations and European Integration, as well as a member of the delegation for relations with the European Parliament.
In May 1997, he resigned from the National Assembly and was instead Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN). Subsequently, he was in 1998 ambassador to the U.S. in July. As such, he was until January 2002 accredited in Washington.
On 25 June 2005 he was elected a deputy to the 40th National Assembly, where he again represents the interests of the constituency SDS Sofia. At the same time he was elected Vice President of the National Assembly.
From 1 January 2007 to 5 June 2007, he was following the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union is one of Bulgaria's interim deputies in the European Parliament. During this time, he was Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
On 15 September 2010 Catherine Ashton announced that Filip Dimitrov EU ambassador to Georgia.
Works
In addition to his professional and political career Dimitrov is also active as a writer. As such, he published:
- "For They Lived, Oh Lord," ( novella ) 1991
- " The True Story of the Round Table Knights ", 1997
- " The Myths of Bulgarian Transition", 2002
- "Light of Men," 2003
- "The New Democracies and the Transatlantic Link ," 2003