vicepresident predecessor successor birth_name birth_place children party office primeminister birth_date term_start spouse signature image article_title term_end name alma_mater
angel marin petar stoyanov rosen plevneliev georgi sedefchov parvanov sirishtnik , bulgaria vladimir ivaylo communist 1990 -- 2002 ; 2012 -- 2014 -rrb- independent -lrb- party 2002 -- 2012 -rrb- alternative for bulgarian revival -lrb- 2002 -lrb- -- present -rrb- before 1990 -rrb- socialist party -lrb- 4th president of bulgaria simeon sakskoburggotski sergei stanishev boyko borisov 28 june 1957 22 january 2002 zorka petrova signature of georgi parvanov.png georgi s. parvanov.jpg georgi parvanov
 22 january 2012 georgi parvanov Георги Първанов sofia university
georgi parvanov

georgi sedefchov parvanov -lrb- , -rrb- -lrb- born 28 june 1957 -rrb- was president of bulgaria from 2002 to 2012 .
he was elected after defeating the incumbent petar stoyanov in the second round of the november 2001 presidential election , and he took office on 22 january 2002 .
he was reelected in a landslide victory in 2006 , becoming the first bulgarian president to serve two terms .
parvanov was a supporter of bulgaria 's membership in nato and the european union .
according to bulgarian law , a bulgarian president is not allowed to be a member of a political party , thus parvanov left the bulgarian socialist party -lrb- bsp -rrb- after his election in 2001 .
although he identified as a socialist , parvanov often called himself a ` social president ' .
after completing his second term as president , parvanov returned to the socialist party , prompting a dispute over the party leadership .
in january 2014 parvanov restarted his alternative for bulgarian revival -lrb- abv -rrb- project , announcing he would be fielding his own candidates for the 2014 european parliamentary elections .
as a result , parvanov is no longer a member of the socialist party .
