A new female face for the opposition in Venezuela, and other stories

#WomenLead (Issue 128): Your weekly round-up on women in politics

Hello, and welcome to Issue 128!

Here’s wishing you all a very happy new year 🎉! We hope you all have had a joyful and restful start to the year. We are back with all the important updates on women in politics from around the world. In this edition, we bring you updates from Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Ireland, Japan, Senegal, the UK and the USA, and the spotlight is on Venezuela. 

We are afraid a change of calendar year hasn’t necessarily brought too much good news from the world of politics, but here’s hoping that 2023 brings many moments of cheer and feminist wins. Before we ended 2022, we listed down some of our favourite developments about women in politics from the year. Just in case you missed it, you can read it here. 

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⚡ IMPORTANT MILESTONES: In Brazil, Sonia Guajajara has been appointed the country’s first-ever minister of Indigenous peoples in the newly elected government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Guajajara is a popular and influential indigenous activist, and was elected as an MP in the election last year. She becomes the first indigenous person to be appointed as a minister in the country. 

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Borjana Kristo is all set to become the nation’s Prime Minister. She has been appointed as the PM-designate and will lead a multi-ethnic coalition. Kristo has previously served as the country’s President (between 2007 and 2011) (another glass ceiling she broke for women in the country).