Zhan Videnov
Shan Wasilew Widenov (also written Žan Vasilev Videnov, Bulgarian Жан Василев Виденов; born March 22, 1959 in Plovdiv ) was from 1991 to 1996 Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP ) and the 1995-1997 Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
Life
Widenov studied at the English Language School (ELS ) in Plovdiv, but without obtaining a degree. This he acquired from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in the degree program External Economic Relations.
After the electoral victory of his party, he became Prime Minister on 25 January 1995. However, the policy of his government was soon very controversial, economically got the state to ruin. On February 13, 1997, he resigned after long negotiations with the opposition after a group of protesters stormed the parliament building (see History of Bulgaria ).
Widenov is married and has a son. He speaks English, Russian and Arabic, today he teaches at a private university in Bulgaria.
In January 2009 he resigned from the Bulgarian Socialist Party. He teaches at the University of Plovdiv economy and euro projects and lives modestly.
Personality
In the words of renowned Bulgarian politician Georges Ganchev Widenov stole from the recent Prime Ministers before 2008 as the only no Stotinka. He calls him a nobility in his soul ( благородник по душа ), the depraved these translucent Communist Party ruined, have been eliminated. The financial crisis in Bulgaria, which has marked the end of the reign Shan Widenows, Georges Ganchev leads back to the arrival of people from George Soros in Bulgaria. Ilija Boschinow, the chairman of the Bulgarian Left Coalition, the BSP has been criticized by the left, Widenov praised as " ordinary and pure people " and invited the Bulgarian left in his party. The former mayor of Sofia, leader of the Green Party Alexander Karakachanov designated in an interview Shan Widenov as an honest man. He was leaving after his fall in 1997 of his party BSP; Shan Widenov had nothing to eat and drove a Moskvich.
In the words of Alexander Karakatschanows Shan Widenov was a bit of a restrained person who could not fight the things.
Trivia
He is famous for his statement: ". The whole of Europe, stretching from Vancouver to Vladivostok"
Swell
Andrei Lukanow | Dimitar Popov | Filip Dimitrov | Liuben Berov | Reneta Indschowa ( interim) | Shan Widenov | Stefan Sofijanski ( interim) | Ivan Kostov | Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha | Sergei Stanishev | Boyko Borisov | Marin Rajkow ( interim) | Plamen Oresharski
Alexander Lilov (1990-1991) | Shan Widenov (1991-1996) | Georgi Parvanov (1996-2001) | Sergei Stanishev (since 2001)
- Bulgarian
- Prime Minister (Bulgaria)
- Born in 1959
- Man