Carme Chacon was sworn in Monday as Spain's first woman defense minister, with 16 other ministers headed by Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Chacon, 37, with a seven-month pregnancy, had served as housing minister in Zapatero's first government, and was described by the prime minister as "one of the major new stars of the Socialist Party."
The Socialist Party won 169 seats in the 350-seat lower house of parliament in last month's elections. Chacon succeeds Jose Antonio Alonso, who has been named speaker of the lower house.
With Chacon included, the new cabinet led by Zapatero has nine female ministers. "It is the first government in which a woman has the defense portfolio and the first government in which there are more women than men," said Zapatero.
Source:Xinhua
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