November 10, 2000
Bulgaria's vice president visits
Interim
Law Dean Jim Klebba welcomes Bulgaria's Vice President Todor Kavaldjiev
to campus on October 19. As communism began to crumble in 1989, Kavaldjiev
became one of the restorers of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union Party
and was elected to parliament in the free elections of 1990. In 1996,
he was elected vice-president. In his lecture, Kavaldjiev discussed the
reforms both he and the president of Bulgaria are trying to enact. They
have continued to support equal rights for all Bulgarians and are focusing
their attention on enforcing privatization, which involves giving back
land the government took to its original owners, building a corrupt-free
banking system, and rebuilding industrial plants. University President
Bernard P. Knoth presented Kavaldjiev with a Presidential Medal for the
leadership he has shown and the contributions he has made in the pursuit
of building democracy in Bulgaria.