Teodora Dimitrova Genchovska
Positions
Birth Date: 23.05.1971
Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Kiril Petkov from 13 December 2021 to 2 August 2022 (no confidence voted on 22.06.2022; the cabinet stayed in office until the caretaker government was appointed): Decision of the 47th National Assembly of 13.12.2021 (State Gazette No. 106/2021, in Bulgarian); Decision of the 47th National Assembly of 22.06.2022 (no confidence) (State Gazette No. 48/2022, in Bulgarian); Decree No. 212 of 01.08.2022 (State Gazette No. 61/2022, in Bulgarian).
Public record
Compiled from publications and official records as of 23.10.2026. Every statement links to its source; claims made by others are marked as such, with who makes them. Quotations in English are our translation.
Communist Party and State Security
- Advisers with a State Security past in her Foreign Ministry team. Club Z writes that the foreign minister's team includes the former DANS chairman Petko Sertov as an adviser and the head of her cabinet Petyo Petev, born 1956, whom the outlet describes as secret collaborator Dinov of the First Chief Directorate of State Security; it places Ivan Petrov, born 1953, secret collaborator Balinov, in the same directorate. Sega, naming that report as the first source, adds that Sertov's career began in State Security and that Petrov is the ministry's new chief secretary. The chairman of the There Is Such a People parliamentary group, Toshko Yordanov, told BNR that there would not be a single State Security adviser in the team. Prime Minister Kiril Petkov announced at a briefing that her advisers linked to the former service would be dismissed, and thanked her and There Is Such a People for approving their release. — Club Z, 21.12.2021, Sega, 22.12.2021
Sources: the National Assembly decisions in the State Gazette; biography and photo: gov.bg (archived, in Bulgarian); birth date: comdos.bg (23.10.2026).
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