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From the EU to New Zealand, women in power

2019-12-10T10:41:01.733Z


The dean remains Angela Merkel but the trend is growing everywhere (ANSA)


From the European Commission to the ECB, from Germany to New Zealand, passing through some countries of Africa and Asia, women in power in the world are slowly but constantly growing. Last in order of time the new premier of Finland, Sanna Marin , who also breaks the record of the youngest head of government in the world with her 34 years (waiting for Sebastian Kurz, 33, to return as chancellor in Austria).

The 2019, with the domination of the European institutions, has brought new energies to the Old Continent, with the first president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen , who for a week has been leading the most balanced European executive among evergreen genres, with 11 female commissioners against 13 men. Even the European Parliament, among other things, hosts the largest number of MEPs in its history, 286 seats out of 751, or 39%, + 3% compared to the hemicycle released by the 2014 vote.

The presidency of the European Central Bank moved from Mario Draghi to Christine Lagarde , who in turn sold the first seat of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to former European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva , a veteran of the World Bank for two years.

In the world there are 14 states that have a female head of state or government, with some striking cases, such as Bangladesh, a Muslim and traditionalist country of which Sheikh Hasina has been prime minister for 10 years, which he had already served from 1996 to 2001.

Or as the president of Nepal, Bidhya Devi Bhandar . Namibia has a woman in charge of the government, Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila , and Ethiopia has its first president: Sahle-Work Zewde , prestigious diplomat and long director for Ethiopia of the UN. The women of the Marshall Islands, Hilde Heine , of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen , the disputed governor of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam , and the New Zealand premier, Jacinda Ardern are also women.

In Europe, in addition to Angela Merkel , in power for 14 years - long leading the list of Forbes of the most powerful women in the world - and the latest arrival in Finland, they boast female government leaders Norway, with the conservative Erna Solberg , and Iceland, with the premier Katrin Jakobsdottir . Iceland also has a female president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir . Women are also the presidents of Estonia ( Kersti Kaljulaid ), Lithuania ( Dalia Grybauskaite ) and Croatia ( Kolinda Grabor-Kitarovic ). In recent years, women from the presidencies of Brazil, Argentina and Chile have left, in Bolivia it could be the time for Jeanine Anez , self-proclaimed interim president.

Source: ansa

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