In the Landtag elections in Brandenburg, the parties, their electoral lists, in the future, be a basis of parity, with women and men. A law decided in the state Parliament in Potsdam on Thursday. The scheme, the first of its kind in Germany, occurs in the summer of 2022 and shall remain in force in order for the next state election on 1. September.
according to The law, the responsible party must create bodies for the Landtag election, the first separate electoral lists for men and women. Then the actual choice list alternately is assembled from two lists, after it was decided which gender gets the top of the list. Candidates who belong to neither the male nor the female gender, are free to decide whether you are a candidate for, the men or the women – only list.
men-only or women-only party would be conceivable
The list of direct candidates is not affected by the new regulation. An exception to the joint occupation of the electoral lists, the law provides for parties or political associations, “the articles of Association in accordance with only one sex, and represented want to record”. Thus, a men-only or women-only party would be so conceivable.
The Berlin-based Green challenge now is to bring in the capital, a parity law is on the way. “On 8. March is here celebrated International women’s day for the first time as a legal public holiday,” says group Chairman, Silke Gebel. “We have said from the beginning that this occasion is an incentive for us to continue to advance equality in our country. We must, therefore, develop in the course of this year in Berlin on a draft law on Parity.”
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The Chairman of the Left in the Federal, Katja Kipping, praised the Brandenburg scheme as a “great contribution to something that’s supposed to be normal”. It is also on the Federal level, “it’s high time for an election law at the Federal level”. At least every second place in the list of sites for the Bundestag election must be filled by a woman – the Left have been practicing this a long time ago. “Others can, too,” said Kipping convinced.
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The women’s political spokesperson of the Greens in the Bundestag, Ulla, Schauws, praised the decision in Brandenburg, also. The new law was “a first step to equal Access for women in politics”. (AFP/perd.)