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| | TIME.com: Bulgaria A Surprise at the Top -- Aug. 13, 1990 -- Page 1 |
 | | Zhelev, who ran unopposed after all parties withdrew their initial candidates, needed a two-thirds majority of the members present to win. |
 | | But Zhelev, 55, a philosopher turned politician and longtime anticommunist, managed to hold his own fractious movement together at a time when the rifts in the Socialist Party were growing wider daily. |
 | | Zhelev says he wants a "strong, competent government"; observers believe that will mean an administration of technocrats drawn from both the Socialists and the U.D.F. The new Prime Minister is likely to be Socialist leader Andrei Lukanov, 52, one of the party's leading reformers. |
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