Number: 129
- OPPMM seeks to bring more women to decision -making: Guadalupe Taddei
The National Electoral Institute (INE) received the Presidency and the Technical Secretariat of the Women’s political Participation Observatory in Mexico (OPPMM), from the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF).
In the event, held in the Superior Chamber of the TEPJF, the president of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei Zavala, said that this observatory seeks to take more women to decision making and train them so that they are ready for political contests.
when assuming the presidency of the OPPMM, Taddei Zavala stressed that every time a woman arrives at a decision -making area, she has double responsibility. first, fulfill their work and, second, generate the conditions for other women to arrive and exceed what has already been achieved.
The President counselor emphasized that at the municipal level there is much to do in this matter, by the Secretariat of Women, as well as the presidencies of the TEPJF and the INE, “but we have to boost it more strongly in the entities.” In addition, within the framework of the first election of the Judicial Branch of the Federation, he invited OPPMM authorities to assume the commitment to make a historical process that is a worldwide reference.
Call magistrate president of the TEPJF not to lower the guard against violence against women
When transferring the presidency and the Technical Secretariat of OPPMM to the INE, the magistrate president of the TEPJF, Mónica Aralí Soto Fregoso, demanded “not to lower the guard” and not lose sight of the fact that the central axis of the task in Mexico is substantive equality, parity and non -violence against women.
Also, Soto Fregoso warned that, despite the significant advances that parity presents in Mexico, “women’s human rights are at risk.”
In this sense, he argued that, despite the strengthening of the rights of women in the country, political violence against gender is still present in electoral processes, including the one that develops in Mexico to elect the judicial people “and always with the same pattern that is based on a patriarchal structure”.
Currently more women occupy decision -making spaces
For its part, the Secretary of Women, Citlalli Hernández Mora, stressed that Mexico lives a historical, political, social and structural moment in which their democracy deepens and advances, in addition to that it is when more women occupy spaces of decision making.
This situation, he said, has to translate into an access and exercise of rights and opportunities in conditions of equality between men and women, as corresponds to the construction of democracy of which all people are part.
Hernández Mora added that it is women’s time and that there is a historical delay in the recognition of their rights, especially in political participation.
The Women’s Political Participation Observatory in Mexico, created in October 2014, is responsible for coordinating actions aimed at promoting the participation of women in decision -making spaces in the public sphere in Mexico, in order to achieve synergies that close gender gaps, from a substantive equality approach between women and men.
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