The explosion of women on Mexican politics … The birth of the only "senator" of the world

51% in general elections, 49% in the House of Representatives … Most local councils are also close to half

Appointment of women 50% of the quota … Next Cabinet Energy, economy, etc.

Women politicians show signs of improvement in the general election that took place Wednesday in the Mexican presidential election.
In particular, the election of a woman in the Senate will exceed the male electorate, and the only senator of the world will be born.

According to the Electoral Commission of the Mexican Electoral Commission, 51% of the candidates were in the Senate and 49% in the House of Commons.

Mexico was the fourth country in the world to have a high percentage of women parliamentarians and women are the only country to have more members than men after the election of elected general electors.

The percentage of women members of the House of Representatives in Rwanda is 61.3%.

Cuba followed with 53.2% (unicameral) and Bolivia with 53.1%. In Korea, which is a unicameral system, the percentage of women is 117%, or 17%.

In almost all provincial councils in Mexico, the percentage of women elected was nearly half.

In the Mayor of Mexico City, Mayor of Mexico, Claudia Seinbaum was elected for the first time at the election of the Mayor of Mexico City. As a Jewish scientist and environmental activist, she is the successor of Amuro, who spent the Mexican city market.

Women's politicians in Mexico, where social equality between the bades has not been settled, are attributed to the quota of women candidates presented in more than 75 countries, the Washington Post badysis Tuesday. Currently, all Latin American countries, with the exception of Guatemala and Venezuela, have a quota system.

Mexico introduced a quota system to nominate 30% of female candidates in 2003.

Women's quota increased to 40% in 2009, followed by a complaint by Mexican women politicians to amend the electoral law , increasing it to 50% in 2015.

Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced the upcoming cabinet in which gender equality has been implemented.

Amro names women to head the so-called main ministries of energy, labor, social welfare and the economy.

The Washington Post said that women's (political) progress will create Mexico's future. "It's the goal of gender equality."

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(Mexico = Yonhap News)