What does BCP stand for?

The mother-of-twoAais well-connectedAuthe daughter of communist-era politician Georgi Bokov, who worked as editor-in-chief of Rabotnichesko Delo, the official newspaper and organ of the Bulgarian Communist Party, and the sister of Philip, one of President Georgi ParvanovAAEs main advisers.

Bulgarian-language internet forums included grumblings about her membership of a family prominent in the country's communist era, with her father Georgi Bokov having been editor of party mouthpiece Rabotnichesko Delo ("Workers Deed") and her brother Filip being close to key figures in the Bulgarian Socialist Party, lineal successor to the Bulgarian Communist Party, in the form of current and immediate past leaders Sergei Stanishev and President Purvanov, respectively.

Both Stanishev and Parvanov were members of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) and are now members of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, which is simply the BCP renamed.

However, the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP), aspiring to stay in power, made some cosmetic changes to try and secure its political position.

The old regime's two most symbolic edifices - Party House, headquarters of the Bulgarian Communist Party, and the mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov, first head of the Bulgarian People's Republic - are both conspicuously vacant.

The last time Sofia had anything other than a right-wing mayor was during the time of Stefan Ninov (1986-1990) when BSP's predecessor, the Bulgarian Communist Party, ruled the country.

Back then, the then Bulgarian Communist Party initiated the process of changing the names of ethnic Turks, which resulted in many Turks leaving the country.

The case Maxim (95) was elected as head of the BOC in 1971, backed by the ruling Bulgarian Communist Party of the time.