Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova. File photo, BGNES
Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova says she has accepted the resignation of her deputy Mariya Boyadzhiyska, who was in charge of environmental issues.
Boyadzhiyska declared she was stepping down earlier this week, on Tuesday, daily 24 Chasa quotes Fandakova as saying.
"We talked, I tried to talk her out of it, but she has personal reasons to step down."
Fandakova has argued her effort to keep her deputy in office last for two days.
Boyadzhieva's resignation follows a move by Fandakova to sack the head of the Sofia waste management facility over recent lethal accidents.
She has worked for Sofia Municipality for ten years. Fandakova has downplayed any link between the incidents and her resignation.