00:00The process is ongoing. By now we are at two-digit women, but I haven't seen all potential candidates.
00:11I have with all the heads of state and governments discussions on the different names, on the different possibilities.
00:20And of course I acknowledge that sometimes for the heads of state and government it's difficult, for example,
00:27if there is a committee and then a parliamentary process that has already taken place. This is not easy.
00:34If I would not have sent this letter, what would have been the fact or the case?
00:40The initial proposals, if you look at the names you all know, besides the high representative and me, the president,
00:50for the 25 member states that then nominate would have been four women and 21 men.
00:57So I have throughout my whole political life been fighting for women having access to decision-making position and leading position.
01:08And my experience is that if you don't ask for it, you don't get it. It does not come naturally.
Commenti