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.