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Yordan Sokolov

Bulgarian jurist and politician (1933–2016)

Йордан Соколов

Speaker of Parliament of BulgariaIn office
7 May 1997 – 5 July 2001PresidentPetar StoyanovPrime MinisterIvan KostovVice PresidentTodor KavaldjievPreceded byBlagovest SendovSucceeded byOgnyan GerdzhikovMinister of Interior of BulgariaIn office
8 November 1991 – 30 December 1992PresidentZhelyu ZhelevPrime MinisterPhilip DimitrovPreceded byHristo DanovSucceeded byVictor Mihailov Personal detailsBorn(1933-01-18)18 January 1933
Sofia, BulgariaDied24 February 2016(2016-02-24) (aged 83)
Sofia, BulgariaPolitical partyUnion of Democratic ForcesAlma materSofia UniversityOccupationJurist

Yordan Sokolov, (Bulgarian: Йордан Соколов) sometimes spelled as Jordan Sokolov (18 January 1933 – 24 February 2016) was a Bulgarian jurist and politician, Minister of Internal affairs from 1991 to 1992, three mandates as an MP from January 1995 to June 2005, and Speaker (Bulgarian: председател) of Parliament from 1997 to 2001.

He was a graduate of the juridical faculty of Sofia University.^[1]

In 2004 together with Ivan Kostov and other MPs Sokolov founded DSB,^[2] but in 2005 he left the political scene and returned to lawyer practice. In 2011 he left his posts at DSP and resigned from membership because of the party's united political activities with the Socialists.

He was married to Prof. Eva Sokolova with two daughters until his death in 2016.

Awards

Order of the Elephant (Denmark)
Royal Order of the Seraphim (Sweden)
Great Cross of The Holy Tomb Order of the Jerusalem patriarchy
Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius

References

^ Prodanov et al. 2009, p. 495.
^ Prodanov et al. 2009, p. 496.

Prodanov, Vasil; Todorov, Antoniy; Avramov, Yosif; Ivanova, Vanya (2009). Българският парламент и преходът (1st ed.). Sofia: Ciela. ISBN 978-954-28-0352-2.