Yordanka Asenova Fandakova is a Bulgarian politician, currently the Minister of Education, Youth and Science.
She was born on 12 April 1962 in Samokov. She graduated the 35th Russian Language School in Sofia and the University of Sofia, majoring in Russian Studies. She is married and has a daughter.
She was a teacher (from 1985) and Director (since 1998) at the 73rd secondary school for foreign languages "Vladislav Gramatik" in Sofia. She became Deputy Mayor of Sofia Municipality of culture, education, sports and prevention of abuse in 2007.
She was elected Member of Parliament for the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria in the National Assembly in the Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2009 and was made Minister of Education, Youth and Science.
Shortly after her election to be Minister of Education, she spent most of her time on the campaign-trail, as she is running for Mayor of Sofia. This disappointed some teachers who expected radical changes in education. bio info (c) wikipedia.org
For the first time in history the Bulgarian capital the woman became the town governor Yordanka Fandakova has confidently won elections of the mayor. On it inform local mass-media.
According to preliminary data, the representative of party in power the ARMS, has got support 67
Percent of townspeople. Thus, Yordanka Fandakova will replace on post of the mayor Smartly Borisov which in the summer of 2009 has held post of the chairman of the government of the country.
Yordanka Fandakova was born in 1962. Has ended the Sofia university on speciality "Russian philology". Worked as the teacher at school, then became the director. Since 2005 was the assistant to the mayor of Sofia. In July of this year Yordanka Fandakova has been appointed to the post the Minister of Education, however, most likely, the armchair of the capital mayor to it is closer.