A historic day for our country. Iliana Yotova is now officially the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, reports "Focus". The Constitutional Court prematurely terminated the powers of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rumen Radev after he resigned to enter politics, and thus Iliana Yotova becomes the first female president of Bulgaria.
Who is Iliana Yotova?
Iliyana Yotova graduated from Bulgarian Philology with a second major in French at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" in 1989. She received her secondary education at a French high school.
Iotova is a journalist, working as a reporter, editor, presenter and head of the "News and Current Affairs" department at the Bulgarian National Television.
She headed the press center of the Supreme Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party from 1997 to 2007. She has been a member of the Supreme Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party since 2000. She has been the Deputy Chairperson of the BSP City Council in Sofia since January 2006.
In 2005, she was elected as a member of the People's Representative in the Fortieth National Assembly from the list of "BSP – United Left" and held this position until 2007.
She then specialized at the National School of Administration – France since 2007 and at the Center for European Studies, Strasbourg.
He chairs the Bulgarian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie and is Vice-Chairman of the parliamentary delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
After the European Parliament elections in Bulgaria in May 2007, he was a Member of the European Parliament from the Socialists and Democrats group.
In the 2016 presidential elections, he ran for Vice-President together with Rumen Radev. The pair was nominated by an initiative committee represented by Stefan Danailov[3] On 19 January 2017, Yotova and Radev were sworn in as Vice President and President of the Republic of Bulgaria before the National Assembly, and on 22 January 2017, they officially took office.
One of the general themes in Iliyana Yotova's work is related to the Black Sea and the place of the Black Sea region in the EU's maritime policy. In 2010, she called for special attention to this European region. At Iliyana Yotova's initiative, a delegation from the EP Fisheries Committee visited Bulgaria to learn about the Black Sea and the region, with the aim of supporting the implementation of the report.