Data | Castilla y León has the least equal regional government in Spain

The Vox spokesman in the Cortes, Juan García-Gallardo (i) and the president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (d), this Tuesday.Photogenic/Claudia Alba (Europa Press)

The new Government of Castilla y León is the least equal of all the regional governments in Spain: the one with the fewest number of women in the Executive.

For every woman director, there are four men.

In total, there are three women, all from the PP, among its 12 main positions: (10 councilors in addition to the president and vice president).

Among the governments with less female representation is the Region of Murcia (PP), Cantabria (PRC), Castilla-La Mancha (PSOE), or the Community of Madrid (PP), where, even so, there is a higher proportion of women with a portfolio .

In Murcia, they are three out of 10, and in Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid, four out of 10. At the opposite pole are Extremadura (PSOE), with seven councilors of 10 positions;

Catalonia (ERC and Junts), with eight out of 15,

The president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, took office this Tuesday in Parliament.

The new Government of Castilla y León only has three women, all from the PP, among its 12 main positions: (10 councilors in addition to the president and vice president).

The popular ones assume the portfolios of Education, Mobility and Digital Transformation and Family and Equal Opportunities.

Mañueco has defended this distribution, assuring that they are "the best men and women" for such responsibilities and has left a "it is what it is" to justify the disproportion.

The three department holders proposed by Vox are men.

This distribution equals the beginning of the last legislature, of the PP with Ciudadanos, when there were also seven men among the 10 ministries.

Germán Barrios, from Cs, resigned from his position and in his place Carlota García Amigo entered, who raised the number of women to four.

That of Castilla y León is one of the least equal governments in the autonomous community, together with that of Murcia, which has only three women although in an Executive of 10, compared to seven of 10 in Extremadura at the other extreme.

Vox's advisers are Gonzalo Santonja, philologist and researcher on bullfighting, responsible for Culture;

Gerardo Dueñas, Minister of Agriculture;

and Mariano Veganzones, a graduate in Geography in History, is responsible for Industry and Employment.

This is the proportion of women in the regional governments with respect to the total number of men:

Castilla y León: Three of 12 (25%)

Region of Murcia: Three of 10 (30%)

Castilla-La Mancha: Four out of 10 (40%)

Cantabria: Four out of 10 (40%)

Community of Madrid: Four out of 10 (40%)

Basque Country: Five of 12: (42%)

Andalusia: Five of 12 (42%)

Galicia: Five of 12 (42%)

La Rioja: Four out of nine (44%)

Asturias: Five of 11 (45%)

Aragon: Five of 11 (45%)

Canary Islands: Five of 11 (45%)

Valencian Community: Six of 12 (50%)

Balearic Islands: Six of 12 (50%)

Navarre: Seven of 14 (50%)

Catalonia: Eight of 15 (53%)

Extremadura: Seven out of 10 (70%)

The inequality of the political class in Castilla y León was already evident during the campaign.

The candidates of PSOE, PP, Cs, United We Can, Vox, Union of the Leonese People, For Ávila and Soria ¡Ya!

to chair the Board were all men.

An inequality that not only occurred in the candidates for the polls on February 13, but was also reproduced in the rest of the lists of each party.

Only 14 of the 52 people who headed the analyzed lists of the formations in the nine provinces were women, 27%, according to the data studied.

A percentage that also placed Castilla y León as the autonomous community with the fewest female politicians in the starting positions when compared to the rest of the regional elections of the last two years.

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