Politics

Mar Galcerán, A People’s Party Member, At 45, Became Spain‘s First Parliamentarian With Down’s Syndrome. Following Angela Bachiller, Spain’s First City Councilor With Down’s Syndrome, Her Historic Achievement Reflects Advocacy For Inclusivity. Galcerán Aims To Inspire By Emphasizing Abilities Over Disabilities, And Challenging Prejudices.

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President Macron Appointed Gabriel Attal, 34, As France’s Youngest PM, Aiming To Address Discontent Over Rising Living Costs. Attal, France’s First Openly Gay PM, Vows Swift Action For The Middle Class. Macron Shifts Focus To Consensual Goals Amid Parliamentary Challenges. Attal’s Popularity May Boost Macron’s Party In EU Elections.

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Spain, Like Demark First Did In 2014, Has Passed A Law That Would Enable People Over 16 To Legally Identify As Another Gender Without Medical Evaluation, And Confirm It 3 Months Later. The Law Changes The Usual Process That Required A Medical Diagnosis Of Gender Dysphoria And To Be On Hormonal Treatment For 2 Yrs Before A Gender Change.

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A Woman, For The First Time, Has Been Sworn In As Peru’s First Female President. The Woman, Ms. Dina Boluarte, A 60-Year-Old Former Lawyer, Was The Vice-President To The Ousted President, Pedro Castillo, Who Was Impeached, On 12/07/22, By Peru’s Congress. Ms. Boluarte, Who Is The Youngest Of 14 Children, Was Born In The Southern Town Of Chalhuanca.

Rishi Sunak, A 42-Year-Old Former Finance Minister, Will Become Britain’s First Prime Minister Of Color And The Country’s Youngest Prime Minister In Modern Times After His Last Remaining Rival, Penny Mordaunt, Pulled Out Of The Race, And The Conservative MPs Overwhelmingly Backed Him To Succeed The Outgoing Liz Truss.

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Liz Truss Will Be Britain’s Shortest-Serving Prime Minister (PM) After Serving For Likely Under 60 Days. The Record Was Previously Held By George Canning Who Served For 119 Days In 1827 Until His Death From Tuberculosis. Robert Walpole Was Britain’s Longest-Serving PM. He Served For 20 Yrs & 315 Days, From April 3, 1721, To Feb. 11, 1942.

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Fatima Payman Is Trailblazing And Making History By Being The First Hajiba Wearing Senator, And Also The First Afghanistan-Australian To Be Elected Into the Australian Parliament. And At Just 27 Years Old, She Is The Youngest Person In The Current Australian Parliament. Impressive Lady!

Aminata Touré Has Again Made History After Being Sworn In As The First Minister Of African (Mali) Origin In Germany. Ms. Touré, Age 29, Was Appointed As Minister For Social Affairs, Youth, Family, Senior Citizens, Integration And Equality In Schleswig-Holstein, Which Is One Of The 16 States Of Germany, With The Capital City As Kiel.

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Zahid Quraishi Is The First Muslim American Federal Judge, In US History, After He Was Confirmed By The US Senate To The U.S. District Court For The District Of New Jersey. He Was Also The First Asian-American To Serve On The Federal Bench In New Jersey After His Appointment, In 2019, As A U.S. Magistrate Judge For The Same District.

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The US Senate Has Confirmed Sunshine Suzanne Sykes, Age 48, To The US District Court For The Central District Of California. Her Confirmation Would Uniquely Make Her California’s First-Ever Native American Federal Judge And The 5th Indigenous Woman In US History To Serve On The Federal Court, Which Has ~900 Authorized Federal Judgeships.

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Tafheen Sharif, Who Was The Youngest Councilor In England, In 2012, Has Once Again Made History. She, A Member Of The Labour party, Is Now England’s First Muslim Female Deputy Mayor After Being Elected In Tameside In The UK. Tafheen Sharif, A Pakistani By Origin, Also Served As A Deputy Police Commissioner Of Bedfordshire.

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President Joe Biden Has Appointed Karine Jean-Pierre As The New White House Press Secretary, Making Her The First Black And LGBTQ Person To Hold The Position. Jean-Pierre, Who Currently Serves As The White House’s Principal Deputy Press Secretary, Will Replace Jen Psaki, Who Will Depart Her Role On May 13th, 2020, For A New Position With MSNBC.

President Joe Biden Has Nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Age 51, For The USA Supreme Court. The Nomination, A Historical Feat And In Fulfilment Of Biden’s Presidential Campaign Promise, Will Make Judge Jackson The First African American Woman Tapped For Such A Position. Judge Jackson Currently Sits On The U.S. Court Of Appeals For The D.C. Circuit.

Gabriel Boric, A 35-Year-Old Congressman And A Former Student Protester, Has Become The Youngest President In Modern Chile History. And Also The Youngest Leader In South America. The Left-Wing Gabriel Boric Won The Largest Majority Ever Recorded In A Chilean Election, On 12/19/21, To Defeat The Ultra-Conservative José Antonio Kast, Age 56.

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Ms. Magdalena Andersson, Who Resigned From Office As The First Female Prime Minister (PM) Of Sweden, Has Made History Again As The First Female Elected Twice As Sweden’s PM, After Being Re-Elected On Monday 11/29/2021 By Parliament. Ms. Andersson Was Re-Appointed As PM When Majority Of The Parliament Did Not Vote Against Her.

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Honduras Has Elected Its First Female President, Ms. Xiomara Castro. Ms. Castro, Who Had Contested Twice For The Presidency After Her Husband, Manuel Zelaya, Was Ousted In A 2009 Coup, Will End The Right-Wing National Party 12-Year Reign. Ms. Castro Promises Changes To A Country Plagued By Large-Scale US Migration, Violent Crime, And Drug Trafficking.

Ms. Magdalena Andersson, Elected As The First Female Prime Minister (PM) Of Sweden, Resigned On Wednesday, 11/24/21, Just Hours After Being Named The New PM. Ms. Andersson Resigned Out Of Self-Respect After Her Coalition Partner, The Greens Party, Quit The Govt., And Her Budget Failed To Pass. But She Hopes To Become A PM In The Future.

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Vice President (VP) Kamala Harris Became The First Woman To Have The Presidential Power Of The Most Powerful Country In The World, USA. VP Harris Had the Power For 85 Minutes When President Biden Was Under Anesthesia For His Routine Colonoscopy. This Temporal Transfer Of Power Is Not Unusual As It Has Happened During Past US Presidencies.

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Michelle Wu, An Asian American Woman, Has Made History As The First Woman, And The First Person Of Color To Be Elected As The Mayor Of Boston, Massachusetts. Wu’s Election Broke Boston’s 200-Year Pattern Of Only Electing White Men For The Position. Wu Was Also The First Asian American Woman Elected, In 2013, As Boston’s City Councilman.

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Barbados Will Become A Republic, On Nov. 30th, 2021 (55 Years Since Independence) After Swearing-In Its First Elected President, Sandra Mason. The Former Governor-General Will Replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth As Head Of State (HOS). Several Countries, After Independence, Dropped The Queen As HOS, But Some Like Australia And Canada Didn’t.

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