Ekaterina Avramova (politician)

Ekaterina Stefanova Avramova (14 February 1907 – 1986) was a Bulgarian politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the National Assembly in 1945.

Biography[]

Avramova was born in 1907 in the village of .^[1] She joined the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) in 1931 and became a member of the central committee of the Workers Youth League two years later.^[1] She attended Sofia University, majoring in German philology, but was expelled in 1934 and sent back to Mokren.^[1] She became an instructor in the central committee of the BCP in 1936.^[1] In 1941 she was arrested and sent to the woemn's section of the  [bg].^[1] She escaped in 1943 and began working for the BCP the following year, becoming an employee of the Ministry of the Interior.^[1]

A member of the BCP central committee from 1945 to 1966,^[1] she was a candidate in the 1945 parliamentary elections, the first in which women could stand, and was elected to the National Assembly, becoming one of the first group of women in parliament.^[2] She was re-elected in 1946. In 1949 she became head of the central committee's external department, a role she held until 1952.^[1] Re-elected again in 1949 and 1953, she headed the central committee's Agitation and Propaganda department from 1955 to 1957 and then became chair of the  [bg] in 1957, remaining in post until 1966.^[1] She was re-elected to the National Assembly in 1957, 1962 and 1966, after which she served as deputy chair of the National Assembly until 1971.^[1] Following the adoption of the 1971 constitution, she was appointed Secretary of the Council for the Protection and Reproduction of the Natural Environment.

She died in Sofia in 1986.^[3]

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