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...more than half the seats in the 400-member parliament in June's elections, Bulgaria's former Communist leaders have been struggling to keep a grip on power and hold their newly renamed Bulgarian Socialist Party together. The internal crisis was triggered early last month when President Petar Mladenov, who deposed longtime Stalinist leader Todor Zhivkov in November 1989, stepped down under pressure. Mladenov had angered opposition groups and liberal members of his party by suggesting that tanks be used to break up a pro-democracy demonstration last December...
...After Mladenov's departure, the Socialist leadership agreed in principle ^ that a non-Socialist should fill the presidency. But last week saw their hopes of installing a candidate of their choice dashed. After five ballots ended in deadlock, members of parliament, by a vote of 284 to 105, elected as President Zhelyu Zhelev, the leader of the opposition Union of Democratic Forces. Zhelev, who ran unopposed after all parties withdrew their initial candidates, needed a two-thirds majority of the members present...
...strong, competent government"; observers believe that will mean an administration of technocrats drawn from both the Socialists and the U.D.F. The new Prime Minister is likely to be Socialist leader Andrei Lukanov, 52, one of the party's leading reformers. Urbane and articulate, Lukanov was Prime Minister under Mladenov and stayed on as the party leader when Mladenov was forced out. Lukanov has the support of many opposition leaders because of his grasp of economic issues and generally evenhanded approach to political problems. He favors a government of national unity, arguing that broad consensus will be needed to implement...
Despite their different ways of handling street dissent, those in power in Bucharest and Sofia share significant similarities. Just as Iliescu and his supporters seemed prepared to take over in Romania as soon as Ceausescu was toppled, Bulgaria's longtime Foreign Minister, Petar Mladenov, carefully orchestrated the ouster last November of dictator Todor Zhivkov and then engineered his own succession as President...
...holdover Communist regime of Premier Georgi Atanasov resigned, and party chief Petar Mladenov, who had unsuccessfully called upon the opposition to join a "government of national consensus," was replaced by reformer Alexander Lilov. Todor Zhivkov, 78, in jail facing charges of misappropriation of state property and abuse of power, was hospitalized with "certain old-age ailments...