Nothing makes me happier than to hear that a woman has been chosen to lead a country.
I do not question their political affiliation, one can be sure that we will NEVER have a woman leader as destructive as TRUMP or divisive as BOLSANARO or brutal like DUTERTE.
And the world is changing.
I think it was Mrs Srimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka who was the first ever woman to lead a modern day government . (there have been women heads of state in history). Of course, everyone loved and respected GOLDA , then came INDIRA GANDHI and Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan.. All of them had been from Asia.Since then there has been a slew of women leaders, with Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May in UK, Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland. S. Korea, Taiwan, NZ, Austalia, Iceland, Liberia, Norway, Finland and the indomitable Angela Merkel in Germany. Also Brasil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia for a few months, earlier in Nicaragua and now USA, the last male bastion has been broken with Kamala Harris elected as the VP. I am looking forward to the day when USA will have a woman President.
So this morning, it was nice to read a short note in MONOCLE about Kaja Kallas.
Redressing the balance
It was just over a year ago that Estonian president Kersti Kaljulaid had to apologise to Finland after right-wing interior minister Mart Helme derided Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin as a “sales girl”. This week the tables turned, as Estonia got its own first female prime minister, Kaja Kallas (pictured), making it the only country to have women serving as both prime minister and president. Added satisfaction will come from the fact that Helme’s EKRE party is no longer in Estonia’s government after the previous cabinet collapsed due to a corruption scandal. “Kallas is like Joe Biden in that she brings huge relief for many, as does the departure of the far-right from the government,” Kadri Liik, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told Monocle 24’s The Globalist. “It’s a return to normality.” No doubt that sentiment is shared in Finland. Marin was quick to congratulate the new government and prime minister, saying that she looks forward to future collaborations.
WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
