Furthermore, at a time when a new wave of Covid-19 punishes the country, the social democrat Karl Lauterbach, one of the most respected scientific experts since the outbreak of the pandemic, will be Minister of Health, Scholz added.
“Parity is very important, that is why there will be eight male ministers and eight female ministers”said the future chancellor.
“I am particularly proud that women are now directing ministries that traditionally” have not been occupied by them, he added.
The Social Democratic Party (SPD), which will lead this governmental coalition with the ecologists and liberals of the FDP, decided that the Interior, Defense, Development and Construction portfolios be headed by women.
What’s more, 40-year-old ecologist Annalena Baerbock will be the new foreign affairs minister, and two other women from the Greens will assume the ministries of Environment and Family.
The liberals of the FDP have four portfolios and have designated one to a woman, that of Education.
Olaf Scholz also considered that the appointment of Lauterbach as Minister of Health responded to the wish of the “majority of Germans”.
This doctor has become a very popular and respected figure since the coronavirus appeared in the country and is in favor of more restrictive measures to stop infections.
Olaf Scholz will be elected Chancellor on Wednesday by the deputies of the Bundestag and will immediately be invested, like his government, by the President of the Republic, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Source From: Ambito
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