The senator and presidential candidate of Town meeting (AC), Guido Manini Ríoshe once again faced his partners from the Multicolor Coalition, now for the project of gender parity.
“We do not agree that the law requires that there be such a quantity of whatever, that goes against the voter freedom“, stated Manini Ríos on Universal radio and described the senator’s initiative as “nonsense.” Gloria Rodriguez. “If we begin to limit because ‘there has to be this or because there has to be that’, in the end the voter is forced to choose, not the best but what meets the requirements that a whimsical law establishes,” he insisted.
The initiative of the legislator of National Party (PN) It was presented almost 3 years ago and is expected to be approved in the coming days by the equity and gender commission of the Senate. It establishes that the lists be formed by alternating a member of each sex in order to achieve equity in the positions in the Parliament. In addition, it aims to guarantee equal access for women to positions in the executive branch.
For the leader of Town meeting, parity is a problem because “tomorrow those who do not consider themselves men or women, non-binary people are going to demand a quota.” “And Afro-descendants and descendants of the Charrúas will also have the right to request a quota in the Parliamentdiabetics, celiacs,” he exemplified.
Uruguay It has one of the parliaments with the lowest female participation, with only 23% of the seats occupied by women. The country currently occupies 96th place in the global ranking of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Index, which measures the political representation of women, far behind other countries in the region such as Chili (46), Costa Rica (8) or Mexico (4).
Source: Ambito
