00:00Of course, it is not the first time that we are listening or talking about the issue of gender parity.
00:08In the country we have talked about this issue, at least since the 2000, when it was issued the law
00:13581,
00:15which determines that in the high positions of the three public powers,
00:19there should be a 30% of women as a base.
00:25After this, the Mission of Observations Electoral has contabilized 11 attempts
00:29to regulate this gender gap to the parliamentary level and the corporations public,
00:35as well as the council, councils and administrators locales.
00:39The Observatory of Gender in the CEPAL has on their website one of those attempts,
00:45which was in 1999, where there was a law for determining a 30% of the Congress
00:51but in 2001, it was constitucional.
00:55So, in 2011, we have the ley 1475, which is the ley of quotas,
01:00which determines that for the list that select 5 or more crules,
01:05it should represent at least a 30% of the gender or the majority.
01:11In this case, it is considered for the women,
01:14because in that time, there were, I believe,
01:20the list in which there were only candidates women,
01:23and at the level of the country, there were only 14 departments
01:26those who have to comply with this mandate,
01:29or, not even half of the country.
01:31With this ley of quotas,
01:34it is clear that in the elections of 2014,
01:37it increased the participation of the women,
01:39as well as the women elected.
01:41However, it is still missing.
01:43So, in 2015, it came out the Legislative 02,
01:47which is the equilibrium of power,
01:49which changed the article 262,
01:53imposing the PAO,
01:54which is Paridad, Alternancia, Universalidad.
01:57Well, the Alternancia, as well as we know,
01:59is man, woman, woman, woman,
02:01and the universalidad is that not only
02:03the 14 departments with the obligatory
02:07to present a 30% of candidates,
02:10but in general, in all the country.
02:13However, this Act of Legislative
02:15didn't determine how to achieve that,
02:17and that was a pendient for the other years
02:20of the Congress,
02:21until now that we have not achieved it,
02:23as we know,
02:24and those attempts,
02:26well,
02:26for mention some,
02:27there is the Ley Estatutaria 83,
02:29of 2015,
02:30which was the first attempt
02:32after the Act of Legislative
02:34of the Equilibrium of Power,
02:35that was not achieved.
02:36That was not achieved.
02:37It happened with the Ley 21 of 2016,
02:40the Act of Legislative 12 of 2017,
02:43which was the component
02:45of the agreement of the peace
02:47in which we wanted,
02:48in the point of participation
02:50political,
02:50to promote more
02:51women in politics,
02:53and in this Congress
02:55actual,
02:56there is a policy reform
02:58policy of 2018
03:00and the policy reform
03:02that was hundered last week,
03:04in which the goal,
03:06as well as the list of
03:07was to determine
03:10the difference
03:10and the alternative.
03:12And this was done.
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