THE QUESTION.
While a woman becomes Prime Minister, for only the second time under the Fifth Republic, the first to have exercised this function, Edith Cresson, estimates this Monday on BFMTV that France "
is nevertheless the only country among comparable countries, where it is so surprising that a woman is prime minister
".
According to the former head of government of François Mitterrand, “
we are a country where the political class is very particular, and quite misogynistic, and where indeed for a woman, it is more difficult
”.
According to her, “
France is a particularly backward country, not in the population, but in its political class
”.
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"
Never in Germany has this problem been posed for Angela Merkel, nor in England for Margaret Thatcher, nor in Portugal, where a woman was prime minister long before me
," says Edith Cresson.
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