18 men "self-determine" women so that their party can stand in elections in Mexico

The Mexican parity law prevented the Fuerza Por México party from running for election in the state of Tlaxcala because it did not have the required minimum number of women. But set the rule, set the trap. Eighteen members of the electoral list decided to “self-determine” as a woman in order to circumvent the parity law. To the surprise of various feminist associations, the General Council of the Tlaxcalteca Elections Institute (ITE) ruled in favor of self-determined men and women and finally allowed their candidacy for local elections.The electoral body endorsed the registration of the candidacies because legally it could not be question the self-determination of the 18 men. As they declared, no one can question the veracity of the self-registration as a woman of the militants of Fuerza Por México, even though it has been precisely 18 men who have taken the step: the exact number for the party to comply with the parity law. The event has raised a cry from feminist associations and LGTBI groups that have questioned the decision to allow their candidacy, arguing that it involves taking advantage of the resources “historically fought” by the community by changing “in an arbitrary and suspicious way the self registration of 18 male candidates ”. Voices of feminist activists assured that what there is is a triple advantage in these 18 applications, which violates human rights, firstly by using spaces that correspond to women; secondly, for using the rights of LGTBI people to apply and thirdly for pretending to comply with the principle of constitutional parity.Finally, they asked the electoral authorities to investigate and punish the violation of the rights of historically vulnerable minorities, as well as to clarify the facts to ensure transparency and the free exercise of participating in the elections for the renewal of the new authorities. .