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Former social minister elected leader of NMSP

Sun, Nov 29 2009 09:01 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Former social minister elected leader of NMSP

 
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With 404 votes in favor, former social minister Hristina Hristova has been elected as new leader of the National Movement for Stability and Progress (NMSP).

Hristova will fill the seat of former leader Simeon Saxe-Coburg, around whom the party was founded and which went from a landslide election victory in 2001 to winning no seats in Parliament in 2009. Soon after the 2009 National Assembly elections, Saxe-Coburg announced his resignation as leader.

In a secret ballot during the fifth extraordinary congress on November 28 2009, Hristova won ahead of the three other candidates; former cabinet minister Nikolai Vassilev, former MEP Biliana Raeva and financier Iliya Lingorski.

The congress further voted on changes to the statutes of the party. Under the new statutes, the political council of the party will no longer be elected by the congress, but by the national council of the formation, Dnevnik said.

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