Margarita Popova
Margarita Stefanowa Popowa ( English Margarita Stefanova Popova , Bulgarian Маргарита Стефанова Попова ; born May 15, 1956 in Pazardzhik ) is a Bulgarian lawyer and politician. She was Bulgaria's Minister of Justice from 2009 to 2011 and Vice-President of her country from 2012 to 2017.
Life
Margarita Popowa was born on May 15, 1956 in the central Bulgarian city of Pazardzhik. After primary school in her hometown, she attended the German grammar school "Bertolt Brecht" there until 1975, before moving to Sofia. In 1980 she successfully completed the Bulgarian Philology and German Linguistics courses at the Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia . From 1981 she worked as a proofreader in the military publishing house. She speaks German and English.
In 1989 Popowa successfully completed her law studies. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Popowa became a young prosecutor in the Pirdop Public Prosecutor's Office in 1990 . She held this position for a year when she moved to the Swoge District Prosecutor as District Prosecutor in 1991 . In 1993 Popova became a prosecutor in the Sofia Public Prosecutor's Office. From 2001 to 2004 she was a guest lecturer at the Police Academy and from 2005 a lecturer. Between 1996 and 2006, Popova was a District Prosecutor in the Sofia District Prosecutor's Office, and from 2006 she worked at the General Prosecutor's Office. From 2007 she was senior public prosecutor and headed the department “Fraud against the EU financial system” at the General Public Prosecutor's Office before she was appointed Minister of Justice in 2009.
In September 2011, Rossen Plevnelev was nominated by the GERB party as the top candidate for the presidential post for the 2011 presidential election. Margarita Popova was nominated as his runner-up. While Plevneliev resigned his ministerial office on September 9, 2011, Popova did not resign from her ministerial mandate for the elections. On November 30, the Bulgarian Parliament confirmed her successor as Minister of Justice, Diana Kowacheva .
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- Biography (Bulgarian)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Miglena Taschewa | Minister of Justice of Bulgaria July 27, 2009–30. November 2011 |
Diana Kowacheva |
| Angel Marin | Vice-President of Bulgaria January 22, 2012–22. January 2017 |
Ilijana Jotowa |
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| SURNAME | Popova, Margarita |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Popowa, Margarita Stefanowa (full name); Popova, Margarita Stefanova (English); Попова, Маргарита Стефанова (Bulgarian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pazardzhik |