Swedish Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari arrived at a European meeting with her infant in a baby carrier on Thursday in Luxembourg, to show that you can “be a present minister and a present mother” at the same time.
“I don’t want to have to choose between being a present mother, when my son is only three months old, and being a present minister,” she stressed in front of the cameras.
“I’m happy if this can serve as an example that you don’t have to choose between these two roles,” she added, with her little Adam in a sling.
His French colleague Monique Barbut immediately gave him a birth gift.
The presence of little Adam is “the best illustration of why we are here: to work today to leave a better planet to those who will inherit it tomorrow”, reacted the Spanish Minister of Ecological Transition Sara Aagesen on social networks.
Reconciling work and life as a young parent is a challenge increasingly highlighted by political leaders.
The European Parliament recently adopted a text to allow pregnant elected officials or young mothers to vote by proxy during their absence.
In 2018, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern became a symbol by bringing her baby to the UN General Assembly in New York, gently shaking a political world that was still very masculine.
The photos of Ms. Ardern, her companion, Clarke Gayford, and their three-month-old daughter, Neve, pacifier in mouth in the vast UN hemicycle had gone around the world.
