Georgie Pirinski
Georgi Pirinski (1948 New York) is a Bulgarian politicians of the Bulgarian Communist Party and after 1990 of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP). He has lived in Bulgaria since 1952.
Political Career
While a convinced communist, Pirinski did show some flashes of independent thinking. In the late 1970s, he was an aide to then Deputy Prime Minister Georgi Lukanov and then at the age of 31 became Bulgaria’s youngest deputy minister (of foreign trade). Pirinski was considered the BSP’s favorite for the 1996 presidential nomination until the Constitutional Court barred him form participating in the presidential election for failing to satisfy a constitutional requirement that the president be a Bulgarian citizen by birth. He was a vice-premier during the Georgi Atanasov and Andrey Lukanov governments and a foreign minister during the Zhan Videnov government and the Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria form 11 july 2005 to 25 June 2009.
Education
Pirinski has graduated in Foreign Trade Economy from the present-day University of National and World Economy.
Further information
The Crisis, Households, and Equity
