Pedro Sanchez has assumed this Monday that the parity law will enter into force this legislature. The norm was already approved in the first round, but the President of the Government has announced that it will be validated this Tuesday in the second round, during the last Council of Ministers before the elections municipal and autonomous next Sunday. From there, the parliamentary process will begin. The Chief Executive has advanced this measure for a rally in Santander, in a context of appeal to the feminine vote, that the PSOE tries to reactivate.
The socialist leader has detailed two novelties that will incorporate the law of parity. The equal representation between men and women It will not only be mandatory in large companies, governments, electoral lists and professional associations, as was included in the first version of the standard. It will also apply, Sánchez has pointed out, to constitutional bodies and those of institutional relevance: Constitutional Court, Council of State, Court of Accounts, Fiscal Council and General Council of the Judiciary. The bodies in charge of ensuring compliance with the law in public interest entities, he added, will be the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) and the Women’s Institute.
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As he did the day before in Valladolid, Sánchez dedicated the central part of the rally to appeal to the female vote, extolling the Government’s measures that have led to progress in equality: the revaluation of the pensions to the rise in the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI), passing through the parity law itself. With the results of next Sunday full of questions, and an outcome in communities and municipalities that will probably depend on a handful of votes, the socialists focus on the female electorate.
“We will not say that Spain is doing well, because women suffer many discrimination problems. But we will say that social democracy manages the economy better, because it thinks of the majority, not the interests of the elite,” said the socialist leader. “They tell me that I am a kind of multi-ad man,” he added. But we do the same thing in election years as we do in non-election years: protect the people. We don’t cut back; we make social advances. They are not ads. We publish it in the BOE. They are facts, not advertisements. That’s the big difference.”