Tsetska Tsacheva, the Bulgarian Parliament Speaker was nominated to run for the presidential elections on November, 6 by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
Tsacheva, is a member of GERB's Executive Committee and had been tipped for a presidential candidate for several months after party officials suggested their nomination for head of state is likely to be a woman.
Tsacheva never embroiled herself in any major conflicts within GERB, neither was her name mentioned in controversial affairs.
Following a notion in the public that a president should symbolise unity and act as "the father of the nation", Borisov commented that after so much talk about the "father of the nation", it was high time that a "mother" appears as well.
Born in 1958 in a village near Lovetch in Northern Bulgaria, she began working as a lawyer in 1992, taking over the legal counsel of Pleven municipality.
Prior to the democratic changes, she was a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party. She says she bears no shame, because the party way was the only one for those willing to receive proper education and other benefits.
Political analysis by Plamen Asenov.
