site.btaIvan Demerdzhiev: Minister of Interior

Ivan Demerdzhiev has been proposed as Minister of Interior in the draft Cabinet of Rumen Radev. 

Between 2022 and 2023 Ivan Demerdzhiev served as deputy prime minister and minister of the interior in the two consecutive caretaker governments of Galab Donev. In 2021 he was caretaker minister of justice and deputy minister in the same ministry. His professional career is closely linked to the legal profession. He is a long-time member of the Plovdiv Bar Association and chaired it between 2019 and 2021. He is managing partner in a law firm with expertise in commercial, civil and administrative law.

He graduated in law from Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv. He specializes in procedural representation in complex commercial cases, insolvency and property law. He speaks Russian and German. He is married and has two children.