Its about time!
Spain may be my new favorite country in the world. And would I be kicking myself in the teeth to congratulate the socialists? And finally, might I indulge in some childishness by crying out with joy “girls rule! boys drool!”? Why such silliness? Well, silliness, in my case comes from excitement, and excitement from this article I read yesterday. See what it inspires in you.
Spain’s ‘Mum’ minister takes critics by storm
By Elizabeth Nash in Madrid
Monday, 21 April 2008
Carme Chacon, Spain’s first female defence minister, appointed controversially last week when seven months’ pregnant, silenced her critics at the weekend by making a surprise 24-hour visit to meet Spanish troops in Afghanistan.
The unannounced trip was criticised by some for potentially putting her child at risk. But Ms Chacon said her pregnancy was an easy one, and told journalists during a two-hour stopover in Kuwait “that she would never put her child’s future at risk”. Asked if she was tired by the 10-hour flight from Madrid, she replied; “The election campaign was harder, and longer”.
Last week, the Socialist Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, appointed a mostly female cabinet.