Only 22 percent of the lists are headed by women.
According to the voting sheets approved by the departmental electoral boards, the percentage varies depending on the internal status of each party.
While in the Frente Amplio (FA) and the National Party (PN) the proportion increases slightly in favor of women, in the Colorado Party (PC) and, above all, in Cabildo Abierto (CA), the asymmetry deepens in favor of the men.
The newspaper La Diaria recalls that since the quota system was installed, through Law 18,476, enacted in 2009, the parties are obliged to include “people of both sexes” in each shortlist of candidates on their lists.
That is, in the first three places on each list there must always be at least one man or one woman, and so on.
But in the last national elections the PN, the PC and CA applied “the quota in a minimalist way in the majority of their lists, that is, in each shortlist they placed only one woman and in third place,” according to UN Women.
Now, for the party elections, 78 percent of the lists are headed by men. In turn, in one of every three lists (33 percent), the first shortlist of candidates is ordered according to the minimum representation quota required by law.
We also apply the criterion of inserting men and women in the lists. In any case, we are not satisfied with this reality because it has not been the big change,” Senator Amanda Della Ventura said in May 2024, during the discussion of the parity bill, which did not advance in Parliament.
With 26 per cent of its lists headed by women, the FA is four points above average.
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