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.
  • aluminium@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    Good to see, I hope however they (talking about all ministers) have the necessary qualifications and aren’t just a bunch of party loyalists cashing in as often is the case - at least here in Austria.

    • Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social
      71·
      1 year ago

      I doubt it, spanish governments usually announce their number of women even before deciding which ones will be; if the criterion is not meritocracy, then…
      In fact there are quite a few “positive discrimination” laws and gender quotas, among them the requirement of 40% of women in politics, administration, companies, courts, etc.

      • Vincent@kbin.social
        33·
        1 year ago

        I mean, how many people do you need? Surely if you can pick from all the women in Spain, you should be able to find 11 competent ones?

        • Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social
          5·
          1 year ago

          Sure, but as the other user says there are so many filters that the final pool is scarce. So if we assume that men and women tend to be equally qualified (of course they are), but there are more men than women in politics, then by forcing gender parity they are probably ruling out men who were more qualified.

          Honestly, we’re talking about politicians, it’s not like qualifications was a mandatory pre-step and I don’t think it’s going to change anything. I’m just arguing the previous comment about non-meritocracy.