Post by account_disabled on Mar 4, 2024 22:47:00 GMT -6
Despite being a “historic” electoral process in which the National Electoral Institute (INE) determined several inclusion criteria such as gender parity in the nomination of candidates for governor, as well as affirmative actions for the LGBT+ community, experts agreed in which this sector continues to be relegated. According to the balance shown by the INE, as of May 3, 2021, only 1.43% of the candidates registered for a candidacy identify as part of the LGBT+ community, and the campaign proposals of the candidates for positions of popular election lack substance. A clear example of this is the recent promotional published by the Partido Encuentro Solidario (PES) in which it positions itself against homoparental adoption and where they highlight that; “There is only one mother, not two; There is only one father, not two”, ensuring that in adoption the right belongs to the girls and boys, not to those who adopt. “At the PES we defend the value of the family and we oppose people of the same sex being able to adopt,” the commercial highlights.
Sexual diversity, a right César Torres Cruz, an academic at the Center for Research and Gender Studies (CIEG) at UNAM, assured that in legal terms, the PES has forgotten that since 2009 it has been a right in Mexico City for people of any sex to have access to the marriage and therefore can adopt a girl or boy. “They can have the political ideology they want, but what they promote may even be illegal in legal terms, so much so that the INE has already ordered those spots to be removed; but they show us that even today the parties have minority candidates in their ranks just to win votes,” he indicated. “One thing is the political strategy to win votes and another thing is the political ideals that agree with the LGBT+ population, let's say that the left-wing parties have been closer to this group of populations, for example Morena has been a party that supports the most candidacies,” he assured. He added that the party in power even has people such as deputies, male and female senators who openly assume themselves to be part of the LGBT+ population; “It is true that there are also coordinations of sexual diversity within the party, and it is true that the party is interested in the issue despite the position of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (president of Mexico.
Cristian Galarza López, defender of the rights of LGBT+ populations, added that fortunately in Mexico the PES proposal and spot are outside any current context. "Not only the LGBT+ community has fought, there is also a community of social fighters who have inherited a fight in favor of the freedoms and rights of all people, especially the most vulnerable groups." "Mexican society lives in a time where it is not fully educated regarding issues of sexual diversity, so when you run a political campaign paid for by Mexicans' taxes, which even encourages them to go against the Constitution, it can be taken as a risk factor,” he added. Quotas, adequate? He said that the sexual diversity quota is a good start, but all members of the LGBT+ community were sidelined, regardless of the fact that there are parties that definitely have nothing to do with sexual freedoms, such as the National Action Party (PAN). . “(In) the Mexican extreme right, it is definitely not coherent because among its precepts is not being open with the LGBT+ community,” he considered. "Right now they do it because the law is forcing them, however, some parties have never defended these causes and that is where the idea of limiting them to this fact is questioned, despite the fact that activism has made the authorities recognize the need to having that community at the forefront of the candidates,” he commented.