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Chairperson of the National Assembly of Bulgaria

presiding officer of the National Assembly of Bulgaria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ3108725 ↗
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The chairperson of the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Председател на Народното събрание на Република България, romanized: Predsedatel na Narodnoto sabranie na Republika Balgariya) is the presiding officer of the National Assembly of Bulgaria. The assembly selects the chairperson during its opening session. The term of the chairperson coincides with the term of the assembly. The salary of the chairperson is лв. 10,973 per month.

List of chairpersons (1879–present)

This is a list of all chairpersons of the National Assembly of Bulgaria from its establishment in 1879 until today.

List of living former chairpersons of the National Assembly

See also

History of Bulgaria

Politics of Bulgaria

Notes

^Naycho Tsanov retired for political reasons on 10 October 1919, his duties being done by vice-chairman Nedyalko Atanasov.

^Nikolay Georgiev was acting Chairman 20 April 1964 – 23 April 1964.

^After the 7th Grand National Assembly dissolved on 12 July 1991, it continued to function as an Ordinary National Assembly until 2 October the same year.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Chairperson of the National Assembly of Bulgaria” is presiding officer of the National Assembly of Bulgaria. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Chairperson, National and Assembly, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1879, 1919, 1964, 1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1879-02-10. For this dossier, Chairperson, National and Assembly is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Chairperson of the National Assembly of Bulgaria” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.