Ivan Yordanov Kostov (born December 23, 1949 , Sofia ) is a Bulgarian statesman and politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria in the 84th government ( May 21, 1997 - July 24, 2001 ).
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| The president | Pyotr Stoyanov | ||||||
| Predecessor | Stefan Sofiyansky (acting) | ||||||
| Successor | Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | ||||||
| Birth | December 23, 1949 (69 years old) Sofia , Bulgaria | ||||||
| Spouse | Elena Kostova (Grigorova) | ||||||
| Children | Yana, Mina | ||||||
| The consignment | Union of Democratic Forces Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria | ||||||
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| Religion | Orthodoxy | ||||||
Biography
In 1970, he studied at the Kremenchug Flight School of Civil Aviation for a month and a half.
In 1974 he graduated from the Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics with a degree in Political Economy. In 1981 he graduated from Sofia University with a degree in mathematical modeling of economic processes. PhD in Economics (1983).
Minister of Finance from December 20, 1990 to November 8, 1991.
People's Representative in the 7th Great National Assembly (1990-1991) and 36th (1991-1994), 37th (1994-1997), 38th (1997), 39th (2001-2005) and 40 -m (since 2005) Ordinary People's Assembly .
The leader of the Union of Democratic Forces (SDS) party from 1994 to 2001. In 1996, the SDS joined the Union of Democratic Forces coalition, which received 52.3% of the vote in parliamentary elections in April 1997 and 137 out of 240 seats in the National Assembly. Kostov took over as prime minister. The government he led carried out market reforms and pursued a course towards integration into NATO and the European Union .
At the next parliamentary elections in June 2001, the Democratic Forces won only 18.18% of the vote. Kostov was accused of failure and was forced to leave the post of leader of the SDS. He did not agree with the accusations and in 2004 with his supporters founded the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria Party (DRC), whose leader was from the moment of its foundation until 2013.
Democracy Foundation Scandal
The scandal with the Democracy Foundation began in 2003 before the local elections, when Mikhail Chernoy in the newspaper Trud accused former Prime Minister Ivan Kostov of extorting money from him for the election campaign in 2001. After the scandal, Kostov's party lost the election.
Four years later, the fund, citing documents from the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Cyprus, revealed that Chernoy did not own the donor companies. Mikhail Chernoy said that he made a bank transfer in order to discredit Kostov and the Bulgarian Democracy Fund.
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Links
- Speeches, interviews and pictures on the page of the Council of Ministers since 2001