translated from Spanish: The Government regulated the law of gender parity in politics

this Friday was regulated gender parity law, passed two years ago, that establishes that the lists of candidates to Congress and the Parliament of Mercosur should be comfort madas at 50 per cent for women and men, in consecutive and interleaved manner, and the standard progresses well over the life of the parties to establish that it is also applicable to the “internal field of political groupings”. Thus, the gender parity Act – number 27.412 – will debut this year in the August 11 elections step, and in the October 20 General.
With the signature of President Mauricio Macri; the head of the Government, Cabinet and the Minister of the Interior, Rogelio Frigerio, Marcos Peña, today issued the Decree 171, published in the Official Gazette, which defines the “gender parity in areas of political representation”. In article 12, the decree establishes that “the gender of the candidate will be determined by sex recognized in national valid identity document at the time of the closing of the electoral roll, regardless of their biological sex or, failing that, evidence of the rectification of the sex registered in the national registry of people, in accordance with the provisions of article 7 of the law N ° 26.743 “. Stresses that “article 37 of the Constitution provides to ensure real equality of opportunity between men and women for access to elective and party positions by positive action in the regulation of political parties and the scheme electoral”. Therefore, the Decree argues that “the principle of parity of gender enshrined by law 27.412 is understood as the conformation of integrated lists for candidates and candidates in interleaved manner, shaped AC and consecutive, from the first or the first owner until the last or last alternate, so there is no continuous two people of the same gender in the same list”. Not only standard shall include representation in Congress and the Mercosur Parliament but that will cover political parties, to the point that “gender parity in the inner area of the political groupings, both district and national, It includes all bodies which provides for, in each case, the respective party Charter, and temporarily could create that by decision of the constituted bodies”, and points out that”the respective internal rules will be adapted accordingly”. In that sense, the Government Decree gives authority to electoral judge to intime to the political party that “breach the gender balance in the composition of its bodies of partisans to remedy this situation, under penalty of forfeiture declare of” the political personality”. In this note:

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