Content_paragraphs: The President, Faustin Archange Touadéra, established a new Government on 
  
  23 June, comprising 32 ministers, including 3 ministers of State, 28 ministers and 
  
  1 minister delegate, at least 20 of whom were members of or closely associated with 
  
  the ruling Mouvement des coeurs unis party. Seven government ministers were 
  
  women, representing 21.9 per cent, above the 14.7 per cent in the previous 
  
  government, but still below the 35 per cent quota established by the gender parity law. 
  
  Six ministers originated from armed groups that were signatories to the Pol itical 
  
  Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation that had renounced violence, two were from 
  
  civil society and two were former presidential candidates.