Women make up more than half of ministers in new government of Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez

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Sánchez was reelected prime minister on Thursday with backing from 179 lawmakers in Spain's 350-seat parliament. His election was opposed by 171 deputies from the centre-right Popular Party and the far-right Vox.

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00:00 After a four-month political stalemate, Spain has a new coalition government led by socialist

00:07 Pedro Sanchez.

00:10 The 22 cabinet members includes 12 women who've been sworn in before the head of state, King

00:15 Felipe VI.

00:18 Nadia Calvino retains her position as first deputy prime minister and the government's

00:23 top economic expert.

00:25 Yolanda Diaz is the second deputy prime minister and sumar leader.

00:30 Teresa Ribera is Sanchez's third deputy.

00:34 Budget minister Maria Jesus Montero has been promoted to fourth deputy prime minister.

00:40 Sanchez won parliament's backing for a new term after striking a controversial deal with

00:45 Catalan separatists.

00:47 The agreement includes an amnesty for more than a thousand people involved in a failed

00:52 Catalan independence bid six years ago.

00:55 Among them, former Catalan president Carlos Puigdemont.

00:59 The decision by Sanchez has triggered nationwide protests.

01:02 Correspondent Jaime Velasquez has more from Madrid.

01:06 The president Sanchez is surrounded by his core and chooses a cabinet of a strong political

01:11 character to face a legislature that is expected to be extremely complicated and that will

01:15 revolve around the territorial enclosure of Spain.

01:18 The approval of the future amnesty law for the leaders of the process will demand from

01:22 the executive a lot of political backbone to face a remarkable political and social

01:28 division .

01:29 In Madrid, Jaime Velasquez, Euronews.

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