Talk:Ivan Kostov

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Roma[edit]

Can you cite sources regarding his being a Roma/Gypsy?

Untitled[edit]

Why the original article was changed???

Why the image was removed?

The new text is manipulative. Ivan Kostov has nothing to do with Simeon II. Why you are associating his name with this person???

Why the official link to his party webpage was removed???

It seems that the subject of this article was covered in two parallel articles. What was Kostov now redirects to Ivan Kostov. (The latter is the proper way to name the article.) Maybe some of the changes you noticed are because of the differences in the two different articles? The remedy, of course, is to edit this article to put in what you think is missing. (With a neutral point of view, of course.).

As for the image, there was an image on the "Kostov"-titled version of the article that appeared to be infringing, and so it was removed. It was posted again today, though not linked into the article, yet. That has been tagged as a possible copyright violation, too. Whoever posted that picture, please follow the rules for resolving the problem – they're posted on the image page. --Kbh3rd 03:57, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

There are many uncited and unverified claims about Ivan Kostov, please cite them or remove them —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.83.48.194 (talk) 10:54, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced section[edit]

I've cut it and put it here:

Ivan Kostov, though a highly talented politician, has been inflexible in his political views which has prevented the creation of a strong alliance with the moderate right-wingers of the United Democratic Forces, now lead by the former President of the Republic, Petar Stoyanov. Above all (and rightly so, in hind sight), he has critisized heavily the former Tsar's son, Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha (a.k.a. Simeon), and the so-called "Tsar's Party" NMSII, which defeated UDF and Kostov in the 2001 elections and lost, in its turn, the next elections in 2005. He has actively networked with European politicians of the centre-right European People's Party, and has always kept to his uncompromising views of the Bulgarian political scene. His well-founded critisizm of the former Tsar's son, Simeon, his successor in the office of Prime Minister, as well as of the present (2006) President, Georgi Parvanov (who was shown to have worked with the former Communist secret service) and a number of other political figures, such as the populist Mayor of Sofia, Boyko Borisov (a former body guard of the former Bulgarian communist dictator, Todor Zhivkov), while on the whole objective, has had negative effect on the efforts of all Right and Centre Right forces to forge a winning common policy. For example, it was Kostov who proposed the President of the Constitutional Court, Nedelcho Beronov, a former UDF parliamentarian, as the common democratic challenger against the former communist Parvanov in the 2006 Bulgarian Presidential elections. In the event, Beronov failed to make the second round of the Presidential elections, letting Parvanov meet and easily defeat the leather-jacket wearing candidate of the extreme nationalists, Volen Siderov. As a result, Kostov's uncompromising position has ultimately diminished his own influence as a mainstream politician in Bulgaria.

However, as unfortunate as it is, Kostov was proven quite right about the lack of competence of Simeon as prime minister, whose major "accomplishment" was the return of land and property (some of which was used but did not really belong) to the former Tsar's family. Simeon, as it turned out during his time as a prime minister (2001-5), instead of a "messiah", became a grave disappointment and did not come in statesmanship even close to his father, the late Tsar Boris III, who is considered by all (except, of course, the former communists) as the shrewdest Bulgarian politician in the first half of the 20th century. (N.B. Boris III was instrumental, together with the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, in the saving of some fifty thousand Bulgarian Jews from the concentration camps of The third Reich, despite the fact that Bulgaria was an ally of Nazi Germany at the time. Moreover, Boris III did not allow the Bulgarian Army to get involved in WWII on the Nazi Germany side, for which, as many believe, he paid with his life in 1943.) Kostov is a vociferous political figure, but recently his influence has been limited to those, who after abandoning the weakened UDF, grouped under his leadership and that of his close associates, Veselin Metodiev and Ekaterina Mikhailova. However, Kostov has not had his last word yet on the never easy Bulgarian political scene.

Biruitorul 13:30, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

June 2013 protests[edit]

I suggest that this page is locked for editing by unregistered members, due to the incredibly complex political situation in Bulgaria. I fear that history will be "touched up", for the purposes of forming a new political leader. Georgi Marinov. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.241.138.141 (talk) 11:42, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Bias?[edit]

The way this article preemptively defends Mr. Kostov, without citing any sources, is not very encyclopedic. For example, what the heck is this?

Kostov's rule was characterized by media claims for massive mismanagement and corruption, none of which have been proven. A number of major Soviet era enterprises that were already bankrupt and in the process of liquidation were sold to the highest bidder below the price of their assets because of the tremendous debts these enterprises had. This was done to allow the new investor to save the jobs of the employees, who would otherwise have to immediately lose their job because these enterprises were in a procedure of liquidation to pay off their creditors. This sale under the book value of assets has been misused by critics of Kostov's government since in unfounded accusations of corruption.[citation needed] While successful in stabilizing the country, Bulgaria's current account balance started growing negative.[citation needed].