Women make up more than half of 22 ministers in new Cabinet of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s reelected Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says women will hold 12 of the 22 posts in his new government. Key posts remain unchanged with Nadia Calviño in economy, Jose Manuel Albares in foreign affairs and Margarita Robles in defense. Sánchez’s Socialist party will hold 17 ministries and the leftist Sumar coalition partner will have five portfolios. Sánchez named nine new ministers to the Cabinet Monday. His new term has gotten off to a stormy start 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. The proposal has triggered massive protests.