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<title>
Bulgaria: Government
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Bulgaria
Government</hdr><body>
<list>
<l>Names:</l>
<l> conventional long form: Republic of Bulgaria</l>
<l> conventional short form: Bulgaria</l>
</list>
<p>Digraph: BU
</p>
<p>Type: emerging democracy
</p>
<p>Capital: Sofia
</p>
<p>Administrative divisions: 9 provinces (oblasti, singular -
oblast); Burgas, Grad Sofiya, Khaskovo, Lovech, Mikhaylovgrad,
Plovdiv, Razgrad, Sofiya, Varna
</p>
<p>Independence: 22 September 1908 (from Ottoman Empire)
</p>
<p>Constitution: adopted 12 July 1991
</p>
<p>Legal system: based on civil law system, with Soviet law
influence; has accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
</p>
<p>National holiday: 3 March (1878)
</p>
<p>Political parties and leaders: Union of Democratic Forces
(UDF), Filip DIMITROV, chairman, an alliance of approximately 20
pro-Democratic parties including United Democratic Center,
Democratic Party, Radical Democratic Party, Christian Democratic
Union, Alternative Social Liberal Party, Republican Party, Civic
Initiative Movement, Union of the Repressed, and about a dozen
other groups; Movement for Rights and Freedoms (ethnic Turkish
party) (MRF), Ahmed DOGAN, chairman; Bulgarian Socialist Party
(BSP), Zhan VIDENOV, chairman
</p>
<p>Other political or pressure groups: Ecoglasnost; Podkrepa
(Support) Labor Confederation; Fatherland Union; Bulgarian
Democratic Youth (formerly Communist Youth Union); Confederation
of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria (KNSB); Nationwide
Committee for Defense of National Interests; Peasant Youth
League; Bulgarian Agrarian National Union - United (BZNS);
Bulgarian Democratic Center; "Nikola Petkov" Bulgarian Agrarian
National Union; Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization -
Union of Macedonian Societies (IMRO-UMS); numerous regional,
ethnic, and national interest groups with various agendas
</p>
<p>Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal and compulsory
</p>
<p>Elections:
</p>
<p> President: last held January 1992; results - Zhelyu ZHELEV
was elected by popular vote
</p>
<p> National Assembly: last held 13 October 1991; results - UDF
34%, BSP 33%, MRF 7.5%; seats - (240 total) UDF 110, BSP 106,
Movement for Rights and Freedoms 24
</p>
<p>Executive branch: president, chairman of the Council of
Ministers (prime minister), three deputy chairmen of the Council
of Ministers, Council of Ministers
</p>
<p>Legislative branch: unicameral National Assembly (Narodno
Sobranie)
</p>
<p>Judicial branch: Supreme Court, Constitutional Court
</p>
<p>Leaders:
</p>
<p> Chief of State: President Zhelyu Mitev ZHELEV (since 1
August 1990); Vice President Blaga Nikolova DIMITROVA (since NA)
</p>
<p> Head of Government: Chairman of the Council of Ministers
(Prime Minister) Lyuben Borisov BEROV (since 30 December 1992);
Deputy Chairmen of the Council of Ministers (Deputy Prime
Ministers) Valentin KARABASHEV, Neycho NEEV, and Evgeniy
MATINCHEV (since 30 December 1992)
</p>
<p>Member of: BIS, BSEC, CCC, CE, CSCE, EBRD, ECE, FAO, G-9,
IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTERPOL,
IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, LORCS, NACC, NAM (guest), NSG,
PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNTAC, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO,
ZC
</p>
<list>
<l>Diplomatic representation in US:</l>
<l> chief of mission: Ambassador Ognyan Raytchev PISHEV</l>
<l> chancery: 1621 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20008</l>
<l> telephone: (202) 387-7969</l>
<l> FAX: (202) 234-7973</l>
</list>
<list>
<l>US diplomatic representation:</l>
<l> chief of mission: Ambassador Hugh Kenneth HILL</l>
<l> embassy: 1 Alexander Stamboliski Boulevard, Sofia, Unit
25402</l>
<l> mailing address: APO AE 09213-5740</l>
<l> telephone: [359] (2) 88-48-01 through 05</l>
<l> FAX: [359] (2) 80-19-77</l>
</list>
<p>Flag: three equal horizontal bands of white (top), green, and
red; the national emblem formerly on the hoist side of the white
stripe has been removed - it contained a rampant lion within a
wreath of wheat ears below a red five-pointed star and above a
ribbon bearing the dates 681 (first Bulgarian state established)
and 1944 (liberation from Nazi control)
</p></body></article></text>