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Updated: January 03, 2022

More Women To Make Up New Dutch Government

By Quadri Adejumo
January 03, 2022
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The Dutch government has stated that a high number of women are to make up the next Dutch Government after the list of ministers and secretaries of state were published on Sunday.

It was gathered that 14 of the 29 ministers and secretaries of state will be women.

According to Aljazeera, Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius is set to become the minister of justice and security.

Kajsa Ollongren, the current interior minister will become the new minister of defence.

The pevious finance minister and centre-right leader Wopke Hoekstra will become the new foreign minister while the former Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag will be the new finance minister.

Kaag served as United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon in 2015-2017. Before her appointment, she headed a UN team overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons.

The new appointees will be sworn in on January 10, 2022. A term many call the new