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Kostov Government | |
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 87th Cabinet of Bulgaria | |
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| Date formed | 21 May 1997 |
| Date dissolved | 24 July 2001 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | Petar Stoyanov |
| Head of government | Ivan Kostov |
| Deputy head of government | See list
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| Member parties | United Democratic Forces |
| Status in legislature | Coalition Government |
| History | |
| Election | 1997 |
| Legislature term | 38th National Assembly |
| Outgoing formation | Electoral Defeat (2001) |
| Predecessor | Sofiyanski Government (Provisional) |
| Successor | Sakskoburggotski Government |
The eighty-seventh cabinet of Bulgaria (the Kostov Government) ruled from May 21, 1997 to July 24, 2001. The government was formed by the United Democratic Forces, an electoral alliance led by the Union of Democratic Forces, after they won a landslide victory in the 1997 parliamentary election winning 49.15% of the votes and 137 (out of 240) seats in the National Assembly.[1] The cabinet was chaired by the UDF leader Ivan Kostov who shared the cabinet posts between his party and his allies. This was the largest margin of victory since the end of communism in 1990, to this day. Kostov's government was the first since 1990 to serve its entire four-year mandate.[2]
- ^ "1997 Parliamentary Elections". Project on Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe. University of Essex. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
- ^ Crampton, R.J. (2005). A Concise History of BULGARIA. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 236.