Tatyana Doncheva

Tatyana Doncheva Toteva (Bulgarian: Татяна Дончева Тотева) (born 28 January 1960 in Tryavna) is a Bulgarian politician from the PP "Movement 21" (Bulgarian: ПП "Движение 21"), of which she is the chairperson. She has been a member of three National Parliaments.[1]

Tatyana Doncheva Toteva
Personal details
Born (1960-01-28) 28 January 1960
Tryavna, Bulgaria
NationalityBulgarian
Political partyBulgarian Socialist Party (before 2009) Movement 21 (2010-present)
ProfessionPolitician, Jurist

Biography

Receiving an education in the field of legal studies (graduating from the juridical faculty of Sofia University), Doncheva has worked as a jurist, lawyer and prosecutor in Sofia. She is also a member of the Arbitration Commission of the Bulgarian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation.[2] In 2005, she was a candidate (backed by BSP and a number of other parties) to become mayor of the capital city, losing out to Boyko Borisov in the second decisive electoral round of the municipal elections.[3] After being unable to stake a strong enough claim for the leadership position of BSP at the party congress in October 2009, Doncheva founded the PP "Movement 21" in April 2010, which does not constitute a political party, but represents the activism of citizens. Tatyana Doncheva ran in the 2016 Bulgarian Presidential Elections.[4]

She speaks English and Russian in addition to her native Bulgarian.[5]

Political views

Tatyana Doncheva is a vocal opponent against corruption and argues in favor of reforms in Bulgaria's justice system. Recently, she raised concern about the anti-constitutional amendments to Bulgaria's Code of Criminal Procedure which were passed by the Bulgarian Parliament in August 2017.[6] Doncheva was worried that the new changes create more possibilities for repression: for instance, one of the new provisions permits an investigation to be kept open indefinitely.[7]

Previously, she had argued that Bulgaria's Prosecution acts like "a shah from the Middle Ages."[8] She also warned that Bulgaria's Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov abuses his office and attacks businessmen for personal reasons.[9] In the summer of 2017, Doncheva suspected that Tsatsarov was working towards extending his already excessive powers through negotiations behind the curtain.[10] Sotir Tsatsarov has recently been nominated for sanctions under the US Magnitsky Act.[11]

gollark: No, I meant most of those things you could probably learn yourself. First aid you would likely benefit from in person teaching in but the rest is just "read the news" or "read a few pages explaining mortgages".
gollark: It is hard to know in advance whether you'll be interested in stuff which needs that several years later.
gollark: Yeees? I mean, I don't know how hard first aid is, but mortgages are trivial.
gollark: Anyway, maths is useful basically anywhere you'll need to analyze stuff quantitatively. Science, programming, engineering, finance, data science. School maths probably less so.
gollark: Your solution to a bad system is to make it involved in *more* important roles?

References
  1. "Профил на Татяна Дончева". National Assembly of Bulgaria. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
  2. "Адв. Татяна Дончева, Комисии към БФХГ - Арбитражна комисия". fbgr.org. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  3. "Кратка биография на Татяна Дончева". omda.bg. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
  4. "Татяна Дончева, кандидат за президент: На балотаж с Цецка Цачева ще взема всички гласове срещу ГЕРБ". dnevnik.bg. 7 October 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  5. "Информация за Татяна Дончева". personi.dir.bg. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
  6. "Татяна Дончева: В затвора трябва да влизат виновни хора, а не невинни по скалъпени обвинения". mediapool.bg. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  7. "Татяна Дончева: В затвора трябва да влизат виновни хора, а не невинни по скалъпени обвинения". mediapool.bg. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  8. "Татяна Дончева: Прокуратурата се меси неуместно в големи икономически игри". Bulgarian National Radio. 27 April 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  9. "Татяна Дончева: ЦУМ-гейт не е паралелна държава, това е нашата си, българска държава". mediapool.bg. 27 April 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  10. "Дончева: Докато спите, Цацаров организира президента, управляващи и опозиция". frognews.bg. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  11. "Nominated Perpetrators". bulgarianmagnitsky.com. 27 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
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