The caucuses of the Purple Party, Broad Front (FA) and Union for Peru (UPP) presented a multi-party bill that eliminates the preferential vote to guarantee the effectiveness of gender parity and alternation in the lists of candidates for Congress from from 2021.
The proposal highlights that, by implementing alternation and parity, without progressiveness, the process of accelerating real equality between men and women is optimized, eliminating the possibility that they will be placed last on the list of candidates.
“Maintaining the preferential vote would empty the content and usefulness of alternation and parity, even if only for the 2021 general elections, since the possibility that women are left at the mercy of the economic resources and time that can be invested in the campaign get elected “, it says in the document.
The spokesman for the Purple Party bench, Francisco Sagasti, indicated that he will request before the Board of Spokespersons that the project be urgently scheduled for the next plenary session of that state power.
Similarly, it considered that the elimination of the vote preferential He already had a broad debate in two committees of Congress and in the plenary on Thursday, June 25.
Sagasti submitted the bill on Saturday to Parliament’s virtual Table of Parties and also sent the document to the president of the Legislative, Manuel Merino; the first vice president, Luis Valdez; and to the head of the Constitution Commission, Omar Chehade.
This shows the digital signatures of the members of the three benches, including those of spokesmen Lenin Checco (FA) and José Vega (UPP), Andina reported.
As recalled, last Thursday, the plenary session of Congress approved a norm that establishes gender parity and alternation criteria (50% of women or men, placed in an interspersed manner) applicable to the 2021 electoral process.
However, the national representation did not reach consensus to eliminate the preferential vote, despite the fact that the Women’s Commission had requested that its opinion be added to that of the Constitution for the elaboration of a substitute text.
In this regard, the president of this last working group, Omar Chehade, agreed to integrate into his text everything related to parity and alternation “horizontal”, but discarded the incorporation of the elimination of preferential vote.
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