turin. A popular initiative law proposal to address the gender imbalance in institutions

TURIN. A popular initiative law proposal to address the gender imbalance in institutions. This is the Turin City for Women campaign, a reality that has been working for some time to promote gender equality. Which explains how “Piedmont is the only region without a special statute that has not yet adopted its own electoral law that respects the principle of equal opportunities. And the results are there for all to see: in the current regional council out of 51 directors only 8 are women ».
Imbalances
The gender imbalance of Piazza Castello and Palazzo Lascaris is not new. Thus Torino Città per le Donne put the necessary reforms on paper. The bill includes three elements. There first is the introduction of the double gender preference, therefore the possibility of indicating two names on the ballot paper, which however are of different sex. Then electoral lists presenting candidates and candidates in alternating order and, in the end, an even number of men and women on the lists. Eight thousand subscriptions are needed to get it to the Regional Council.
The firm
From today and for the next six months it will be possible to sign in support of the proposal on a series of occasions in Turin and in the other Piedmontese cities indicated on the association’s website, torinocittaperledonne.org. “Women are more than half of the population, yet they have always been under-represented in the politics of our Region” explain Monica Peretto, Eva Desana and Carola Messina, who wrote the proposal. “It is not acceptable that Piedmont, one of the driving areas of the country’s development, including political ‘equality between women and men and which can ensure effective equality of access to elected offices ”. –