Rositsa Yanakieva () (July 7, 1954 – January 26, 2015) was a

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n politician and chemist, who served as the Deputy Speaker of the

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from 2014 until January 2015. She served as the

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, for two, consecutive terms from 2005 to 2014. In 2014, Yanakieva joined the

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(ABV), a center-left

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founded by former

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. She was elected as an MP of the

in the

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on October 5, 2014. She was subsequently elected Deputy Speaker of the 43rd National Assembly, a post she held until her death in January 2015. Rositsa Yanakieva suffered a

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on January 6, 2015. She remained in a coma until her death on January 26, 2015, at the age of 60.

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