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The Hellenic Radio (ERA): News in English, 08-04-12
From: The Hellenic Radio (ERA) <www.ert.gr/>
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[01] Spanish Government Dominated by Women
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Spanish Government Dominated by Women
12 Apr 2008 20:27:00
By Athina Saloustrou
Spains Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has presented his
new cabinet, which for the first time includes more women than men and
in which a woman takes over the Defence Ministry. Mr Zapatero also
reappointed Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, a mainstay of his
previous government, as deputy prime minister and kept in place Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Pedro Solbes and the head of
Spanish diplomacy Miguel Angel Moratinos. Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba will
be the new Interior Minister despite some reservations, while former
housing minister, Carme Chacon, one of the rising stars of Spains
Socialist party, becomes its first ever female defence minister. The
sworn-in women ministers are eight and the respective men seven.
Translated by John Crystallidis
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BBC: Women dominate Spanish cabinet
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