Sánchez's New Spanish Government Emphasizes Feminist Accent

Reelected Prime Minister Faces Controversy Over Catalan Amnesty Proposal

Women will hold 12 of the 22 posts in the new government named by Spain’s recently reelected Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
The new government will have a marked feminist accent with four women deputy prime ministers and more female ministers than male ministers.
Sánchez’s Socialist party will hold 17 ministries and its leftist Sumar (Joining Forces) coalition partner will have five portfolios.
Sánchez was reelected prime minister with backing from 179 lawmakers in Spain’s 350-seat parliament, opposed by 171 deputies from the center-right Popular Party and the far-right Vox.
His new term has started with controversy after he clinched the support in parliament of two Catalan separatist parties in exchange for a controversial amnesty proposal for hundreds of people in legal trouble over the Catalonia region’s failed secession attempt in 2017.