… And the conquests “hang by a thread”
Just as legislative and interpretative changes of the National Electoral Institute (INE) have brought advances to the participation of women in political life, today there are also winds of setback.
danie ravelis one of the five women that make up the General Council of the INE and from that position it has been up to him to analyze and propose key issues for parity in the exercise of power.
In 2019, for example, he had to propose that the right of women to participate in all political spaces in conditions of equality will also apply to office of governorshipswhich caused resistance in male political actors who challenged in the Electoral Tribunal.
But all the public discussion and the interpretative powers of the electoral bodies led to the parties nominating women in at least seven entities in the 2021 elections. What led to the fact that today there are nine female governors at the head of the Executive Powers of the states.
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However, Ravel warned that the progress made in terms of parity “hangs by a thread.”
“The achievements we have so far hang by a thread. It seems to me that we cannot ring bells and say that everything we have at this moment will remain, ”she warned.
The foregoing, after that interpretive power of the INE was removed with the so-called “Plan B” of the electoral reform promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“In Plan B, the freedom of interpretation of both the administrative authority of the electoral authority and the jurisdictional authority is limited. To say it with all its letters without the power of interpretation of the INE we would not have been able to draw up the rules for parity in the governorships and we would not have this historic number of female governors that we have, nine at the same time, ”he refers.
“It is important that we take care of what we have achieved, not take it for granted”
Dania Ravel, INE electoral adviser.
The so-called electoral “Plan B” also determined that the electoral body cannot ask the parties to modify their basic documents, after the INE had mandated political organizations to guarantee “substantive parity” because in Morena the Pre-candidates Susana Harp and Maki Ortiz filed appeals considering that they did not find conditions of equal competition with men to access the candidacy for the governorships of Oaxaca and Tamaulipas in 2021.
“The parity and the achievements that we have until that day are hanging by a thread, we do not have them insured. We have to continue taking care of them, we have to see who reaches the places where decisions are made and, furthermore, we cannot allow having legislation that is regressive in terms of human rights”, affirms the counselor.
Although there are those who say that women are “not together nor deceased”, they are the ones who come together to face the challenges that public life imposes on them. Without women, the achievements in gender parity would not have materialized, considers Kenya Lopez Rabadan.
The advances of parity would never have been achieved in everything, in the federal Congress if we had not had half the seats and the seats, a criterion of that magnitude would never have been achieved if there had not been women in decision-making.
Kenya Lopez Rabadan
Now one challenge is that the parity comes to everyday lifebecause it is fair for 51.2% of the women that make up Mexico of 126 million 14,024 inhabitants.
“The legislators and women who today occupy decision-making spaces now begin to talk about daily parity, about parity that affects all women who are not in the exercise of public power today but who we represent and that they, like us, they live circumstances of violence and inequality every day for the simple fact of being women in this country”, considers Verónica Delgadillo.
