Spain’s parliament boasts the greatest share of women in Europe
“WE HAVE set the course towards a fairer Spain,” Pedro Sánchez, the country’s recently re-elected prime minister, told supporters this week. As measured by the representation of women in politics this is certainly true. Spain has become a force for gender parity in politics since Mr Sánchez was first elected prime minister in June 2018. Last year he unveiled the mostThere are signs of progress in the Spanish parliament, too.
Mr Sánchez can take much credit for accelerating Spain’s feminist development; 52% of the newly elected members of parliament for his Socialist party are women. But the course was set much earlier, by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a previous Socialist prime minister. He introduced gender quotas, requiring women to make up not less than 40% of Socialist party lists in the election of 2008.
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