Petar Dertliev

Petar Dertliev (Bulgarian: Петър Дертлиев) (April 7, 1916 – November 5, 2000) was a Bulgarian politician. He was a Social Democrat and was born in Pisarovo, Pleven Province.

Peter Dertliev was educated as a doctor. He graduated in medicine in 1941. He was briefly an assistant in the Department of Anatomy at the Medical Faculty of Sofia University. His career has been marked by political persecution exercised against him. From 1957 to 1963, he worked in the TB-dispensary for children in Tryavna and Pernik. Then until his retirement in 1984 he was head Fluorographic department of the Institute of Tuberculosis at the Medical College.

Peter Dertliev was, in his own words, more of a "social democrat than a teenager." He participated in strikes and held open social positions stands. He was first arrested in 1936 during a student protest for restoration of the Tarnovo Constitution. Later, he was repeatedly arrested for opposition activities against the regime established after 1934.In 1938 he is under investigation for illegally printing and distributing materials during elections.

On September 9, 1944, he became a member of the Committee of the Fatherland Front at Sofia University and the Medical Faculty. He was a secretary of the Union of Socialist Youth.

In 1946, for opposition activities against the emerging communist regime was sent to Camp "Rosica." That same year was elected to parliament in the Grand National Assembly. In 1948, his parliamentary immunity was revoked and Dertliev was sentenced to ten years in prison "for counter-revolutionary activities." Serving them in the camps with. Venchan and Belene (2-fold), Pleven Prison, criminal division and in jail for repeat offenders in Pazardzhik. This period does not change his political beliefs.

After the political changes of 1989, Dertliev, together with Atanas Moskov, initiated the reconstruction of the Party of Bulgarian Social Democrats (BSDP).^[1] After the brief presidency of Atanas Moskov (1989–1990), 1990 Peter Dertliev BSDP heads as chairman. [4] In Bulgarian presidential election, July–August 1990, a presidential candidate, but the BSP does not accept the nomination on the grounds that the ultimate anti-communist. Dertliev signed the new Constitution and disagreed with the position of the 39 MPs left the parliament. Fetch BSDP UDF in 1991 and trying to create a political center, an alternative to the BSP and the UDF. Attract former members of BSP / SDK from "Europe" / in the Social Democratic Union to BSDP. Trying to form a strong social-democratic core around which to unite the political center, and largely achieves this with the establishment of the Council for Cooperation with the participation of the Alternative Social Liberal Party, Civil Alliance for the Republic, the Green Party, PK Ecoglastnost and others. In 1994 he was the first chairman of the rotation of Political Union Democratic Alternative for the Republic / DAR /.

Peter Dertliev has written two autobiographical books, one of which is "This is me - speeches, articles and interviews."

He retired from active political activity in 1998 and remains honorary chairman of BSDP. Despite his highly deteriorated health, until the last minute he dealt with political problems. He died of cancer on November 5, 2000 in Sofia.

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