Yordanka Fandakova is the new Education Minister in the GERB government. Photo by BGNES
The new Bulgarian government of the GERB party and PM Boyko Borisov, which was sworn in Monday noon, consists of 12 men and 4 women.
The four women among the new Ministers are the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rumiana Jeleva; the Minister of Justice, Margarita Popova; the Minister of Education, Yordanka Fandakova; and the Minister of Environment, Nona Karadzhova.
The outgoing government of Socialist PM Sergey Stanishev also included four women: Meglena Plugchieva (Deputy PM), Gergana Passy (EU Affairs), Emiliya Maslarova (Labor), and Emel Etem (Emergency Situations).