In 2008, when Spain's prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero appointed a female-majority cabinet, Berlusconi said: "Zapatero has formed a government that is too pink … He will have problems leading them.
One conservative commentator in Spain described Zapatero's female-majority cabinet as his "battalion of inexperienced seamstresses" but what is generating the most news is newly elected Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's reaction to the news coming out of Spain.
As all three camps claimed surges of support and, in Mr Major's case, a majority within Cabinet there was no clear view as to who would get most second preferences in a third round.
Flemish parties want a majority of cabinet seats.
By a majority, the cabinet agreed to give way and promptly lost three ministers, because their party, the Social Liberals, Mr Racan's main coalition partners, disagreed.
If the conservatives and Free Liberals manage to achieve an overall majority, a cabinet could be formed as quickly as within a few days.
On a morale-boosting trip to troops in Kosovo last week, Ms Chacón, Spain's first female defence chief and a star of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's majority female cabinet, declared: "The mission has been completed and it's time to return home".
Its two ministers threatened to walk out, taking sympathetic ministers with them.Hizbullah still opposes many decisions taken by the majority of cabinet ministers, whom they deem too close to America.
The great majority of cabinet members favour visits to Yasukuni, the controversial Tokyo shrine that honours war criminals among the soldiers, and reject Japan's "apology diplomacy" for its wartime atrocities.
BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister set forward the skeleton of his new government on Monday night, proposing ministers to fill a majority of cabinet seats and bringing a bitter nine-month impasse one faltering step closer to resolution.
