The current Chair of the Coalition for Bulgaria Parliamentary Group Mihail Mikov was nominated Tuesday as Bulgaria's next Interior Minister. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)
On Tuesday Mihail Mikov was nominated as Bulgaria's new Interior Minister in the government of PM Sergey Stanishev, replacing Rumen Petkov who resigned in the wake of an alleged corruption scandal.
Mihail Mikov was born on June 16, 1960, in the town of Kula in northwestern Bulgaria. He graduated with a degree in law from Sofia University "St. Kliment of Ohrid", where he is currently an associate professor of criminal law.
Mikov has been a Member of Parliament from the Bulgarian Socialist Party since 1997, representing the northwestern Bulgarian district of Vidin.
In the 40th Bulgarian Parliament (2005- ), Mikov has been the Chair of the Parliamentary Group of the leftist Coalition for Bulgaria. He is a member of the Legal Matters Committee, and the European Integration Committee.
Mikov speaks French, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian. He is married and has two children.