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MEXICO: Leftist Male Politicians Are Self-Identifying As “Women” In Upcoming Municipal Election To Secure Candidacy
Two left-wing parties in Mexico are under fire after nominating several men to run as female candidates in the upcoming municipal elections in the state of San Luis de Potosí. The move appears to be a way to exploit a loophole in the Gender Parity Law in Mexico’s constitution, which requires 50% of all elected positions to be held by women in an effort to combat the country’s rampant sexual violence.
The Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) have nominated a number of males to run in the municipal elections to be held in San Luis de Potosí, one of the country’s 31 states. But due to the Gender Parity Law, the men are registering as “women” in order to successfully run.
It is unclear at this time if the parties simply didn’t have enough female candidates to run, as all political parties must nominate at least five women in order to participate in the elections. The move might also be a way of guaranteeing a win, as female candidates can often “leapfrog” over their male opponents if parity has not been met.
For the Green Ecologist Party, José Reyes Martínez Rojas has been selected to run as a “woman” in Venado, Roberto Carlos Medina Hernández will run as a “woman” in Vanegas, and Daniel Alfonso Zavala de la Rosa will run as a “woman” in Villa de Arista.
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But due to the Gender Parity Law, the men are registering as “women” in order to successfully run.
We have a visitor, a childhood friend of my wife's, staying with us for a bit. She recently retired from a high level government job, but then most jobs are government jobs in china, and it was sort of capitalist in nature, in the real estate sector. She's a multi millionaire, retired in her mid 40s. I asked her whether she feels her gender made it more difficult, and two things were clear from her answer. One, she never thought about it much, and two, the culture in the government was to encourage females in positions of leadership, to create a balance. If anything, she felt being a woman was an advantage, but again, not something she thought a lot about. She still had to spend her life hitting her Key Performance Indicators to get her bonuses at the end of the year. In America, our major difference is that we obsess about stuff like that.
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But due to the Gender Parity Law, the men are registering as “women” in order to successfully run.
We have a visitor, a childhood friend of my wife's, staying with us for a bit. She recently retired from a high level government job, but then most jobs are government jobs in china, and it was sort of capitalist in nature, in the real estate sector. She's a multi millionaire, retired in her mid 40s. I asked her whether she feels her gender made it more difficult, and two things were clear from her answer. One, she never thought about it much, and two, the culture in the government was to encourage females in positions of leadership, to create a balance. If anything, she felt being a woman was an advantage, but again, not something she thought a lot about. She still had to spend her life hitting her Key Performance Indicators to get her bonuses at the end of the year. In America, our major difference is that we obsess about stuff like that.
@Horace said in Meet the LatinX:
the culture in the government was to encourage females in positions of leadership, to create a balance
I agree with this. One of the things I noticed when I was in china, was that there was a greater % of females in upper level organization positions than pretty much any other country.
(Side note: Dont know if they still do it, but government companies used to require upper management to spend a 1/2 day every month doing manual labor. So for example, in a oil refinery, you might see the refinery manager on a Friday afternoon sweeping up the trash, or doing touch up painting, etc. Not I bad idea I dont think.)
