Tsveta Karayancheva

Tsveta Valcheva Karayancheva (born 25 February 1968) is a Bulgarian engineer and politician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly from 2017 to 2021.

While working as an engineer she "transformed GERB-Kardzhali into a well-oiled machine that managed to liquidate the BSP as the second political force in the district and even depersonalize the MRF, which has always ruled there.

[7] She replaced Dimitar Glachev, who resigned to avoid "political upheaval" as Bulgaria took over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

[11] On 26 March, she proposed that the Assembly suspend regular sittings and convene only for urgent or emergency reasons, with questions to Cabinet ministers to be solely in written form.

"[17] In October 2020, the Assembly debated a request submitted by 96 members of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Movement for Rights and Freedoms for her removal, arguing she had violated the rules of the legislative process and was ignorant of the Constitution.

[18][19][20] Deputy chair of the GERB parliamentary group, Krassimir Tsipov, rejected the request saying, "Ms. Karayancheva, you have not lost the trust of the majority that elected you.

"[18] GERB Chair Daniela Daritkova said the opposition had no right to request the resignation after they had boycotted sittings of the Assembly in solidarity with protestors.