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The government cabinet with the highest proportion of female ministers in Spanish and European history was sworn in Thursday, putting the cap on one of the fastest power transitions in Spain's four decades of democratic rule. Per the AP , the new Socialist government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is comprised of 11 female ministers—overseeing key areas such as the national economy, finance and defense—and six men. Women represented 64.7 percent of the new Cabinet, above the 62.5 percent that the Finnish government scored in 2015 according to the statistics of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Most of the new ministers referred to the female majority in their oath-taking on Thursday before King Felipe VI.