The constitution and laws establish the equal participation of women on candidate lists, but this is not fulfilled; I have heard some sort of justification from the President of the National Electoral Council (CNE) for not doing so, stating that there is a short time available for this general election due to the sudden presidential decree of death by crucifixion.

If the CNE requires political organizations to comply with gender equality laws for these elections, they will have to do so, as they have done on some occasions, before.

I understand that one or more associations for the protection of women’s rights have already filed appeals for the protection of these women’s rights; I heard that they announced their decision, if they are not dealt with in the first instance, to turn to the Constitutional Court. It would be better if the CNE understands the moment and foresees the issuance of measures leading to harmonization with laws on gender equality.

Women’s associations could demand that political parties and movements adhere to parity standards or risk a general boycott of all female voters by those who do not. We must remember that the right to vote for women was recognized after long and painful struggles. The most emblematic case was that of the struggle waged in England, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, by the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, who even had to spend seasons in prison; she took her fight to the United States by uttering her famous line: “I am here as a soldier (he was only a visitor) who has temporarily left the battlefield (England).” The suffragettes fought and won. They overcame blindness and male stubbornness. They won by gaining the right to vote, but companies still do not recognize their full right to employment, equal pay, access to managerial and managerial positions, and participation in management boards. It’s a long way!

It would be one of the most important cases that the Constitutional Court would have to resolve in these busy days of death on the cross.

It is somewhat incomprehensible that the Constitutional Court, in order to pronounce on the first of the urgent economic projects sent by the president, called for a public debate, instead of enacting complete legality. In the case of a tax law in which taxes are reduced, in which, in addition, the previous creation of taxes is corrected, there does not seem to be any opposition, and it is, perhaps, the only one that is not in danger of being repealed by the next session of the Assembly, which, by all accounts, have an opposition majority. That majority, if so, will want to continue with the political persecution of the President of the Republic Guillermo Lasso, which has not been rejected or archived, it says.

We said last week that in this matter of death on the cross, the cure can be worse than the disease. In the country where we live, due to the straitness of time, in a real tower of Babel. May God receive us confessors! (OR)