The president of, (-ap), criticized on Thursday (5) for women in Congress and said that the reserve of vacancies would lead to the lack of adequate conditions for the representation of Brazilian society with quality.
Today, the maintained one, mostly, by white men. Only 16 of the 81 vacancies in the Federal Senate are occupied by women, which is equivalent to 19.75%. In, the percentage is 17.7%, with 91 women among 513 deputies.
The senator recognized the low participation of women in politics in the country, but said the reserve of chairs would “in the opposite direction”. An alternative, he added, would be the creation of “efficient legislation” and other forms of incentive.
“My personal feeling is that we have to, from efficient legislation, to encourage the participation of women in politics without establishing a quota, a mandatory number of chairs,” Alcolumbre said, adding that there are senators who agree with him.
“The time we make a quota for the number of women in Parliament, we will end up not giving them adequate conditions so that they represent with quality Brazilian society. They have to encourage, parties have to do meetings, have to help them participate, have to invite women to engage in the pre-campaign process, election.”
The reservation of vacancies for women in Congress and in state and municipal legislative spaces has been discussed by the Senate within the. The text is today at the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission).
The project, Senator Marcelo Castro (MDB-PI), replacing the device that predicted at least 30% “of applications for each sex in the legislative houses”.
Alcolumbre also defended the vote on the electoral code reform project. The senator said it was necessary comprehensive legislation, so that society is not surprised by “pre-election electoral patches.”
The first quota of gender in Brazil emerged in 1995, when Congress approved the allocation to women of at least 20% of candidacies in the following year municipal elections. In 2000, this percentage rose to 30%.
In 2018, the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) and the Supreme Court (STF) decided that parties should also pass the billionaire funds from party and electoral funds proportionate to the number of candidates.
As revealed the Sheetthis boosted the phenomenon of the calls, fraud that consists of the release of façade campaigns only in order to deviate from women’s funds to men’s candidates.
