Petar Stoyanov

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Petar Stefanov Stoyanov (Bulgarian: Петър Стефанов Стоянов) (born May 25 1952) is a Bulgarian politician who was President of Bulgaria from 1997 to 2002. He was elected as a candidate of the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF). He did not succeed in the next presidential elections and after leaving office refrained from politics for a while but later became an MP in 2005 and was Chairman of UDF from October 1 2005 to May 22 2007.

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active years end date

2002-01-22

active years start date

1997-01-22

birth date

1952-05-25

birth place

People's Republic of Bulgaria, Plovdiv

order in office

3rd President of Bulgaria

party

Union of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria)

prime minister

Stefan Sofiyanski, Ivan Kostov, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Zhan Videnov

successor

Georgi Parvanov

vice president

Todor Kavaldjiev