translated from Spanish: Member proposes to create a national association of Feminists

The President of the Permanent Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, announced the creation of the “National Association of Feminists”.
During the plenary session of this Thursday, the legislator for Morena proclaimed himself as a “confessed feminist”, and after announcing the creation of a national association he invited his “male companions to enroll”.
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“There is no equality, not even parity, if there is no draw of wills: that of the women who are the motor, and that of the feminists,” he said.

The President of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, Expriista, Experredista and now of @PartidoMorenaMx, is declared “feminist” and announces the creation of the “National Association of Feminists” as the beginning of the debate of the law of gender parity. #Feministo pic.twitter.com/e8AxoFmL5N
— Verónica Calderón (@veronicalderon) May 23, 2019

The announcement of Muñoz Ledo was given in the context of the discussion in the San Lázaro plenary of the Gender Parity Act, which was approved in general and in particular on May 14th in the Senate.
During the session, members of different parties spoke in favour of legislating for gender parity, in order to fully guarantee their rights and to eradicatedize political violence against women.
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The gender parity reform opinion provides for the amendment of various articles of the Political Constitution to ensure gender parity in the three powers of the Union, autonomous bodies and state and municipal governments.
This is the second time that the member makes a controversial statement during a plenary session on women’s rights.
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In January 2019 the National Action Party, he accused Muñoz Ledo of making misogynistic remarks against Senator Martha Marquez when he went up to Tribune with his baby.
After the senator exceeded his time of participation in the Tribune to expose the positioning of the BREAD on the shortage of fuel in the country, the deputy told him that there was “a limit of maternal-infantile tolerance”, what Marquez considered a lack of respect.
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Original source in Spanish