The campaign for the municipal and regional elections of May 28 has consumed its first stretch and faces the last week. The parties reposition their strategies and refine the messages to try to penetrate key niches. In the PSOE it happens that there is a waterway with the female vote. In the first stage of the electoral race, the Socialists have suffered a significant leak in the female vote. Specifically, it has squandered six points of advantage over the PP.

Hence, Pedro Sánchez, at his rally in Santander on Monday, has appealed to the suffrage of women, recovering, as he has done on previous occasions, a rule already underway to dress it as an announcement: the Council of Ministers approves this Tuesday in the second round the first Law of Parity Representation and balanced presence of men and women in decision-making bodies.

The data of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) are worrying for the PSOE in terms of the female vote: on May 11, this body reflected an advantage of six points in favor of the Socialists: 24.1% of women opted for the socialist ballot, compared to 18.2% who chose the PP. Eleven days later, the same CIS notes that this advantage has been squandered: to the question "In the next municipal elections of May 28 which party do you intend to vote for?", 21.5% point to the PSOE and 21.1% to the PP.

These data from the CIS explain that Sánchez at the beginning of this final and decisive stretch of the campaign has emphasized "vindicating the feminist action of the Government." To this end, he has outlined the measures of the Executive and the effect they have had on women. Namely: 60 per cent of the beneficiaries of the increase in the minimum wage are women; the revaluation of pensions -linking them to the CPI- has a greater impact on this half of the population....

"Voting for the PSOE is voting for feminism," proclaimed the President of the Government. "The more socialist presidents and mayors are at the head of the institutions, the greater feminist governments we will have, let there be no doubt about women."

Accelerate a law to stop the bleeding

As a hook in this strategy to stop this bleeding in the vote of women, the Government accelerates and sets a date for the final approval by the Council of Ministers of a law that was underway for a few months. This Tuesday, the cabinet will approve in the second round the Law of Parity Representation and balanced presence of men and women in decision-making bodies.

The rule was already promoted in March, but now the decision is to approve it definitively in order to send it to Congress and that it can be in the BOE, that is, in force, before the end of the legislature.

As a novelty with respect to the initial text, the norm will also affect the constitutional organs of the State, since it will oblige them to have a parity representation.

That is, and according to government sources, it concerns the Constitutional Court, the Council of State, the Court of Auditors, the Fiscal Council and the General Council of the Judiciary. The bodies responsible for ensuring compliance with the obligations of equal representation in listed companies and public-interest entities will be the CNMV and the Women's Institute, respectively.

The new law will require a presence of at least 40 per cent women in: the Government; the boards of directors of large companies; electoral candidacies, by means of zipper lists; professional associations; the juries of public recognitions.

"On many occasions the right and the far right have heard them say that quotas are at odds with meritocracy. But on the walls of the ministries there are few portraits of female ministers. Thanks to the quotas led by the PSOE, first internally and then at the institutional level, today in the Cortes there are 47% more women than in the first courts and today we have a Government committed to gender equality, "said Sánchez.

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