translated from Spanish: Senate will seek to adopt gender equality in Executive, legislative and Judicial

Mexico.-the Senate is shaping up to approve an opinion that will guarantee a gender balance in the Executive, legislative and Judicial national level: 50% of h ombres and 50 per cent of women at these levels.” The initiative seeks to ensure parity in which corresponds to the Executive power to its owner and his Cabinet, in the legislature to the deputies and Senators and Senators of the H. Congress of the Union. “In the Judicial, the Ministers, the district judges, the magistrates and judges of circuit and voting, as well as to the Council of the Federal judiciary”, reads the draft opinion dated February 28. On Tuesday, they secured Parliamentary sources, in Conference committees for equality, constitutional issues and legislative studies approve the respective Decree project, a document that integrates the panista Kenya López and the morenistas initiatives Malú Micher, Ricardo Monreal and Marti Batres, the latter, Chairmen of the Board of political coordination and the Board of Directors.

Photo: MX “(also) in the autonomous public bodies, the managing bodies of the Electoral Institute, National Institute of transparency and access to information and protection of personal data, National Institute for the evaluation of the” Education, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, Federal Commission of economic competition, national human rights Commission and the National Institute of telecommunications. Also refers to the Court of administrative justice and the higher Agrarian Court”. The initiative argues that to date “have only been elected 8 women governors, (while) the cabinets of federal entities are only integrated by 15% of women, (and) the formation of the lower chambers of State legislatures It has only 28% of women among its members.”” And Councils only 12% is formed by mayors. As for the power Judicial from the Federation, in the case of the plenum of the Supreme Court of Justice, women account for 18%; in the upper room of the Electoral Court, the percentage of women magistrates corresponds to 28%; “while in the Council of the Federal judiciary, counselors added 28.5% of the total of those who make up the Council”.

Photo: MX-ns.MX in relation to the judiciary, “the initiative envisages that in the appointment of Ministers and Ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the nation;” magistrates and judges of the Court Electoral of the power of the Federal judiciary, and members of the Council of the Federal judiciary, the Senate of the Republic responsible for agencies ensure the principle of gender parity designation”. The same principle is proposed for the Council of the Federal judiciary, in the appointments of high courts for the collegiate circuit courts and district courts entitlements, and the bodies of autonomous public bodies. And considers that the scheme to play “in each of the 32 federal entities, both at State and municipal levels. Finally, the approach of the initiative is the ensure the principle of parity in every sense, therefore proposes that the Presidency of instrumentalities and Government, both local and federal agencies is in turn assumed by a person of different sex, in terms of their respective periods. Similarly, it proposes that, in cases where the number of members of a collegial body is odd, is consider to favour a greater presence of women, for the purpose of reversing the historical inequality that have been.” The project considers the reform of the constitutional articles 2, 4, 35, 41, 52, 56, 94 and 125 in terms of gender parity. With six transient, document sets the necessary adaptations and the entry into force of the regulations.

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