Valentina Goga
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Valentina Goga | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| Assumed office May 21, 2015 | |
| President | Samuel Czenko |
| Preceded by | Dimitri Dubrinsky |
| Minister of Police and Prison Affairs | |
| In office May 11, 2004 – May 21, 2015 | |
| President | Mergen Baynev Samuel Czenko |
| Preceded by | Leonid Sushko |
| Succeeded by | Oleksandr Semenenko |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 3, 1966 Velike Vishnavaya, Kriklivets, Narozalica |
| Nationality | Narozalic |
| Political party | Patriots' Front (since 2003) |
| Spouse | Kazymyr Goga |
| Children | 1 |
| Education | University of Malbay |
Valentina Goga (born Valentina Myroslava Goga; Валентина Мирослава Гога, 3 December 1966) is a Narozalic politician and economist currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs under Samuel Czenko since 2015. A long-standing influential member of the Patriots' Front of Narozalica since 2003, she also previously served an eleven-year tenure as Minister of Police and Prison Affairs from 2004 and 2015, under both Mergen Baynev and Czenko.
Born in Velike Vishnavaya in 1966, Goga attended and completed an economics degree at the University of Malbay, graduating in 1988 and pursuing a job as a government economist in the governments of Vasil Bodnar and his successor Ivan Lecsko in the 1980s and 90s. She joined the Patriots' Front in 2003 and was appointed Minister of Police and Prison Affairs in 2004, holding the post until 2015 and introducing sweeping reforms that increased police power and decreased the rights of prisoners. Goga was promoted to the Foreign Affairs Ministry upon Czenko's re-election in 2015, and has served in the post since. Regarded as one of the more authoritarian and autocratic members of the government, Goga is an outspoken nationalist and supports a projective foreign policy over much of western Euclea. Goga also supports increased ties with Samorspi.
On April 22, Goga announced her intentions of running for the presidency after Czenko announced he would not be contesting the election.