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.
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00:00 After a four-month political stalemate, Spain has a new coalition government led by socialist
00:07 Pedro Sanchez.
00:10 The 22 cabinet members includes 12 women who've been sworn in before the head of state, King
00:15 Felipe VI.
00:18 Nadia Calvino retains her position as first deputy prime minister and the government's
00:23 top economic expert.
00:25 Yolanda Diaz is the second deputy prime minister and sumar leader.
00:30 Teresa Ribera is Sanchez's third deputy.
00:34 Budget minister Maria Jesus Montero has been promoted to fourth deputy prime minister.
00:40 Sanchez won parliament's backing for a new term after striking a controversial deal with
00:45 Catalan separatists.
00:47 The agreement includes an amnesty for more than a thousand people involved in a failed
00:52 Catalan independence bid six years ago.
00:55 Among them, former Catalan president Carlos Puigdemont.
00:59 The decision by Sanchez has triggered nationwide protests.
01:02 Correspondent Jaime Velasquez has more from Madrid.
01:06 The president Sanchez is surrounded by his core and chooses a cabinet of a strong political
01:11 character to face a legislature that is expected to be extremely complicated and that will
01:15 revolve around the territorial enclosure of Spain.
01:18 The approval of the future amnesty law for the leaders of the process will demand from
01:22 the executive a lot of political backbone to face a remarkable political and social
01:28 division .
01:29 In Madrid, Jaime Velasquez, Euronews.
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