The Green party politician Claudia Roth calls for a parity law for the Bundestag, in order to assign the half of the mandates on women. “Where the structural disadvantage is not enough voluntary participation in the rule”, said Bundestag Vice-President to the daily mirror. If the parties have not converted voluntarily, a statutory scheme properly. So far, the share of women in the Bundestag at 30.9 percent.
Roth, a model in which the parties on their choice of as many men as women lists. “The easiest way would be, if the other parties would initially be based on the model of the Greens, the party lineups quota regulation in List.” This model is perhaps only a first step, but “quickly implemented, and in conformity with the Constitution” said the Green politician. “The aim must be, the glaring Absence of women in many debates, finally something to counter that.”
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Roth criticized at the same time, the behavior of the AfD-deputies in the Bundestag debates. “Here is trying to make open sexism socially acceptable.” There is a “permanent malice against women,” said the Vice-President of the Parliament.
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