Magdalena Lazarova Appointed Acting Prosecutor General of Bulgaria

The Plenum of the Supreme Judicial Council elected Deputy Prosecutor General Magdalena Lazarova as Acting Prosecutor General of Bulgaria. The decision was adopted with 17 votes in favour and two against.

Lazarova will take office on October 23 and serve for a term of six months, replacing the current acting Prosecutor General, Vanya Stefanova.

Magdalena Lazarova has extensive professional experience in the judicial system. Her career began in 1998, when she was appointed junior prosecutor at the Blagoevgrad District Prosecutor’s Office. She later worked as a prosecutor at the District and Regional Prosecutor’s Offices in the city, and in 2011 became Deputy Appellate Prosecutor in Sofia.

From 2012 to 2017, Lazarova was a member of the Supreme Judicial Council, elected by the National Assembly. After her term ended, she became a judge at the Specialized Criminal Court of Appeal and subsequently worked at the Sofia Court of Appeal.

On April 30, 2025, the Prosecutors’ Chamber of the Supreme Judicial Council elected her Deputy Prosecutor General. She took office on May 12 of the same year.

Lazarova holds a master’s degree in law, which she obtained in 1996.