Constitutional fraud due to false parity, they warn

The collective Women in Plural (MEP) called the authorities National Electoral Institute (INE)and of Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) a prevent fraud on the Constitution what political parties made by having nominated as male candidates who describe themselves as trans women.

For him PVEMand elected mayor in San Luis Potosí was registered under the principle of parity and campaigned pointing out that assumed woman; Now that he was the winner, he claims to be part of the sexual diversity quota.

While in Michoacan, There were eight men who usurped the spaces what By parity they corresponded to women; claiming to be trans women.

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The now elected mayors They competed for the opposition coalition of the PAN, PRI, PRD and of Morena, PT, PVEMas well as by MC and the PES.

In interviews with Excelsiorthe feminist lawyer Patricia Olamendi and the former president of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation, María del Carmen Alanís, MEP founderswarned of the seriousness of this situation that usurps women’s spaces by taking advantage of legal loopholes.

INSTITUTIONAL OMISSION

The highlights drivers of compliance with gender quotas and, later, of the parity In all, they considered that the electoral authorities are ignoring a violating practice of the law that violates political rights of more than half of the population.

Going and saying to an electoral institution that you woke up as a woman, to be a candidate for the position that corresponds to parity, is evidently a fraud, given that it is only being used to come to power without the law allowing you to do so,” explained Patricia. Olamendi, also a member of Todos Mx.

This is very serious and here what we have to ask ourselves is about the electoral authorities. Because in this case, the state electoral institutes allowed these records and endorsed them, although they were denounced, both in Michoacán and in SLP (as fraud against the law, a simulation). “This should be an issue analyzed at the highest level and the parties that allowed it should be sanctioned,” he declared.

*Patricia Olamendi, feminist lawyer.

Olamendi said that this simulation has antecedents because since the quota system existed “there has always been resistance to giving these positions to women, and also with affirmative actions that were even proposed to be eliminated (in 2023 by the majority of the parties in the Chamber of Deputies) ”.

Now these fraudulent actions on the part of political parties violate a constitutional principle, which is that of parity and against the principle of equality established in the first constitutional article for groups in vulnerable situations, the so-called minorities.

Both principles have strengthened the democratic system in Mexico. But this time the parties went further by recommending to male candidates that, by making use of these rights, they ascribe themselves as women,” he explained.

UNVERIFIED SELF-ASCRIPTION

The former presiding judge of the TEPJF held for his part that “los political parties have always defrauded the law; First, with women to meet the quotas, they registered us as substitutes and in the last places on the proportional representation lists.

Later they established quotas with certain limits and conditions, since cheating continued: the substitutes were relieved by the men and the women were pressured and violated; The same thing happened in the quotas and the same thing continued to happen in the parity until, with sentences and very clear criteria from the administrative authority and the jurisprudence of the Court, the parties have been led to comply with the parity,” Alanís noted.

And now, added the expert in political rights of womensome parties that were unable to register all the male candidates “told their friends and compadres, pretend to be a woman and register as a trans woman.”

The former president of the electoral Tribunal that this type of fraud on the law and simulations led the Electoral Court to require that the registrations of indigenous people be accompanied by verification of belonging to a community.

However, this requirement is not required for people who belong to other affirmative action target groups or quotas in electoral agreements to access the elected positions.

And that is today’s battle, because 8 trans women were registered in Michoacán, who are not trans women, who are men, who have self-defined and self-ascribed their entire lives and now what they are doing is removing eight spaces to women or people who belong to the LGBTQ+ Plus community and this is defrauding the law,” Alanís explained.

*María del Carmen Alanís, founder of MEP.

WOMEN IN PLURAL CLAIM

In a public statement released on the night of Thursday, June 20, Women in Plural (MEP) joined the claim that organizations in the aforementioned entities, where, with the approval of the local electoral institutions, the simulation of registered candidates under the principle of gender parity.

We express our indignation at the fraud on the constitutional principle of parity promoted by various political parties by accrediting men in the candidacies designated for women,” stated MEP, the pioneering platform in Mexico in the defense of the political rights of the female population.

Made up of politicians, former legislators, deputies and senators, former electoral officials, counselors and magistrates, lawyers, academics and journalists, the organization Women in Plural asked the INE and the TEPJFas well as the electoral authorities in general, act against these violations of the law.

We call on the electoral authorities to prevent and sanction these behaviors,” the statement stated.

The political parties encourage it, the authorities allow it and what we have to do is stop it. One, because it is a fraud on the law, two, because it is improper, three, because they are affecting the rights of people who belong to these minorities and something very important is that they are denaturalizing equality between men and women and parity,” Maca Alanís emphasized.

FRUSTRATION IN MICHOACÁN AND SLP

Otilia Molina from Todos Mx in Michoacána member of the groups that from the registration phase warned of this fraud against the law, stated that there is evidence that it was the leaders of the political parties themselves who acted locally “with great treachery, reducing the participation of women” by allow this type of tricks.

She said that in some cases the candidates were even surprised because they were unaware that they had been registered as candidates in women’s spaces, alleging that they were trans. This is what happened in Michoacan with flag bearers of the PES and MC.

Claudia Espinosa Almaguer from SLP also regretted that there electoral authorities have acted omitently in the face of openly misogynistic behavior on the part of political parties.

He noted that with the argument that men who call themselves women cannot be required to provide evidence to the contrary, as it was their determination to do so, the local body has tolerated the violation of parity.

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