(SEMlac) .-
2011 Guatemala elect this president, deputies and mayors, but women will again be unable to run the big players in some positions of power, following the refusal of deputies to approve changes to the Electoral Law and Political Parties , which pointed to the gender alternation in the distribution of cells and the quota system.
For 13 years, women's organizations like Living Earth, MOLOJ and Policy Convergence Civic Women sat on the bench to establish changes in the Elections and Political Parties, so that Guatemalans could have a decent space lists nomination to public office in political parties and civic committees, but all remained a dead letter.
Carmen Caceres, Policy Convergence Civic Women, explains that the land is still fertile. "We have over 10 years on that. We're in an election year and the law was not even included on the agenda of Congress," he notes, while Delia Bac, Member of Congress, described as 'slow' the adoption of legislation.
addition, Bac anticipated that the proposal will not reach the legislative agenda, however, says Cáceres that if they get approved, at least it would have paved the way for elections in 2015.
For 13 years, women's organizations like Living Earth, MOLOJ and Policy Convergence Civic Women sat on the bench to establish changes in the Elections and Political Parties, so that Guatemalans could have a decent space lists nomination to public office in political parties and civic committees, but all remained a dead letter.
Carmen Caceres, Policy Convergence Civic Women, explains that the land is still fertile. "We have over 10 years on that. We're in an election year and the law was not even included on the agenda of Congress," he notes, while Delia Bac, Member of Congress, described as 'slow' the adoption of legislation.
addition, Bac anticipated that the proposal will not reach the legislative agenda, however, says Cáceres that if they get approved, at least it would have paved the way for elections in 2015.
Women's organizations in this country of 14 million inhabitants and more than half are women, looking to the listed alternates elected man, woman, man, Indian woman.
That's because Guatemala is a multicultural country where about 22 groups prevail Mayan descendants.
But equality, parity and alternation of women's political participation in this Central American country, it appears to go backward. To show the general elections in 2007, where also the machismo prevailed.
Of the 332 municipalities that were played then, only 106 women were allowed to be candidates and got out five, while in the elections of 2003 at least eight got the win. Even Dora Amalia
Taracena, Convergence Policy, welcomed the board of the Congress of the Republic of 2010 or even has included a deputy, as in previous years at least one woman was present in that instance and makes a decade, two of them occupied the Presidency of the parliament.
The gap between men and women members of political parties is large, according to studies conducted by national associations and abroad, and is absent the inclusion of women in executive committees of political organizations.
With the exception of the Party of Unity for Hope (UNE) and the minority party Guatemalan Revolutionary Unit (URNG), which have 30 percent of their contributions designated for women, the rest of the 14 groups do not give space to them to ensure his election. Rather
Guatemalan women are placed in the last positions of the lists, which ban them the opportunity to sit in a seat, stands Cáceres. And this also includes the government, because the current cabinet has neither a single minister, said.
Agency itself Judiciary also contributes to the absence of the 13 judges of the Supreme Court is just a woman. The same applies to the Constitutional Court, where there is only one judge of the five that make up the full Supreme Court.
Giracca says that although the election of 2011 will see more faces of women to positions of presidential election, "one should not forget the local power and the power in Congress as a whole are the ones who built this country." Refer
currently at least five women have started to become visible in party politics to occupy the presidential chair, something unthinkable eight years ago in this country, where 1945 was given the right to vote to women, but only those who could read and write. Historically
was in September 1998 when women's organizations made the proposal on contributions from political participation and effectively became the first and second reading in the Congress, but then not mentioned again.
"I see that the games are still sexist and patriarchal," says Cáceres, and this will continue. "In this election year there will be changes," he said.
The activist believes that if there is pressure some women may come to occupy privileged positions in the listings, "But not by law but by attitude."
The marginalization of women in Guatemala is a historical situation. Currently, this country ranks last in Latin America in gender equality, and the 111 out of 134 countries assessed, the report of the overall gender gap, produced by the World Economic Forum.
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