Career
Active, Resistance Movement, 1941-1944; member, National Assembly minister of agriculture, Government of Bulgaria, 1952-1958; secretary central committee, Bulgarian Communist Party, 1958-1959, 66-71; full member politburo, Bulgarian Communist Party, 1961-1988; deputy prime minister, 1959-1966; permanent Bulgarian representative to, Council for Mutual Economics Assistance, 1962-1966; chair, Council of Ministers, 1971-1981; chair, National Assembly, since 1981; deputy chairman Supreme Council, Bulgarian Socialist Party, since 1990.