Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of Bulgaria (died 2015)

Zhelyu Zhelev

President of Bulgaria from 1990 to 1997

Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev was a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who served as the first democratically elected and non-Communist President of Bulgaria, from 1990 to 1997. Zhelev was one of the most prominent figures of the 1989 Bulgarian Revolution, which ended the 35 year…

List of heads of state of Bulgaria

This is a list of the heads of the modern Bulgarian state, from the establishment of the Principality of Bulgaria to the present day.