Rumen Rashev

Rumen Rashev is born 26 March 1955 in Veliko Tarnovo. He graduated the Medical University in Sofia.

In the period from 1997 to 1998 he was the district governor of Lovech Province. At that time, Veliko Tarnovo was still part of the Lovech region. On February 1, 1999, Veliko Tarnovo became a province and Rashev became the governor of the new district.

In 1999, Rashev became the mayor of Veliko Tarnovo. In 2003 he won a second term, and in 2007 he has been re-elected mayor for the third time.

In March 2012, the Veliko Tarnovo Court of Appeal sentenced him to three years in prison.^[2] In May 2012, the case was returned for reconsideration by the Supreme Court of Cassation, which sharply criticized the appellate court for politically motivated bias. In October 2013, the Plovdiv Court of Appeals again issued a conviction against Rashev, serving a suspended sentence of 2 years.^[3][4]