Women will maintain 12 of the 22 posts within the new authorities named by Spain’s not too long ago re-elected Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

“The new government is going to have a marked feminist accent with four women deputy prime ministers and more female ministers than male ministers,” Mr Sanchez stated.

The cupboard will embody 9 new ministers whereas key posts stay unchanged. Nadia Calvino retains the financial system portfolio, Jose Manuel Albares stays accountable for overseas affairs and Margarita Robles stays at defence.

Mr Sanchez’s Socialist occasion will maintain 17 ministries and its leftist Sumar (Joining Forces) coalition associate could have 5 portfolios.

The outgoing authorities’s former far-left coalition associate, Unidas Podemos (Unite We Can), could have no ministries.

The occasion’s former star, equality minister Irene Montero, might be changed by Ana Redondo of the Socialist occasion.

Mr Sanchez was re-elected Prime Minister on Thursday with backing from 179 legislators in Spain’s 350-seat parliament. His election was opposed by 171 deputies from the centre-right Popular Party and the far-right Vox.

His new time period has gotten off to a stormy begin after he clinched the help in parliament of two Catalan separatist events in change for a controversial amnesty proposal for a whole bunch of individuals in authorized bother over the Catalonia area’s failed secession try in 2017.

The proposal has triggered huge protests referred to as by the Popular Party and Vox. Several held by excessive right-wing teams near the Socialist occasion’s headquarters in Madrid resulted in clashes with police.

Mr Sanchez promised to “prioritise dialogue and negotiation in a legislature that will be key for the social and territorial cohesion of Spain”.