Mihail Mikov
| Mihail Mikov | |
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| Leader of the Socialist Party | |
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In office 27 July 2014 – 8 May 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Sergei Stanishev |
| Succeeded by | Korneliya Ninova |
| Chair of the National Assembly | |
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In office 21 May 2013 – 6 August 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Tsetska Tsacheva |
| Succeeded by | Tsetska Tsacheva |
| Minister of Interior | |
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In office 24 April 2008 – 27 July 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Sergei Stanishev |
| Preceded by | Rumen Petkov |
| Succeeded by | Tsvetan Tsvetanov |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
16 June 1960 Kula, Bulgaria |
| Political party |
Communist Party (Before 1990) Socialist Party (1990–present) |
| Website | mmikov |
Mihail Raykov Mikov (Bulgarian: Михаил Райков Миков; born 16 June 1960) is a Bulgarian politician who was Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) from 2014 to 2016. He is a parliamentarian with six consecutive terms as a deputy in the National Assembly. His career in the legislature culminated in his election as Chairman of the 42nd National Assembly on May 21, 2013. Mikov was Minister of Interior from 24 April 2008 to 29 July 2009 in Sergei Stanishev's government. Currently he is the leader of the Parliamentary Group of BSP Left Bulgaria in the 43rd National Assembly, the coalition led by the socialist party. Mihail Mikov was elected as Chairman of the BSP on 27 July 2014, succeeding Sergei Stanishev. He won a run-off against outgoing Economy and Energy Minister Dragomir Stoynev with a final tally of 377-333.
Mikov was born in the Bulgarian town of Kula, Vidin Province, on June 16, 1960. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Sofia University where he later taught criminal law. Mikov has postgraduate specializations in Human rights, NGO taxation, Anticorruption Practices. He is fluent in French, Russian and Serbian. Mikov is married with two children.
Mihail Mikov became a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party and after the democratic changes in Bulgaria in 1989 – a member of its successor, the Bulgarian Socialist Party. In the last parliamentary elections, held on October 5, 2014, BSP scored its lowest results since the restoration of the multiparty system. The new leadership under Mikov has stated the following goals:
The leader of the Bulgarian socialists is acknowledged for his career as a jurist and a lawmaker. As an academic he consulted the authors of many bills and laws adopted by parliaments starting from the Grand National Assembly, including the present Bulgarian Constitution. He was elected for his first term in 1997 and became deputy from Vidin. In parliament he initiated constitutional and criminal law changes including such restricting the immunity of lawmakers, judges and prosecutors, creating the institution of Ombudsman and improving the accountability of the higher judicial bodies before the national legislature. Other reforms he co-authored lead to the abolition of the death penalty and criminalization of computer crimes.
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