Silvio Berlusconi angers Spain for mocking female cabinet
A heated row has broken out between Spain and Italy over whether women should be given powerful Cabinet jobs. Silvio Berlusconi, who takes power shortly as Prime Minister of Italy for the third time, caused outrage in Spain after he suggested that the new Government of José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero was “too pink”. Mr Berlusconi, who won a sweeping victory in this week’s Italian election, told a radio station: “Zapatero has formed a government that is too pink, something that we cannot do in Italy because there is a prevalence of men in politics and it isn’t easy to find women who are qualified.”
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