The Chamber of Deputies sanctioned a project halfway through last night “Equality and gender equality” in representation in sportwhich, if sanctioned definitively, will mean that, within a period of five years, the AFA and the other national sports associations must be composed equally of men and women, on their executive committees.
The initiative of the deputy Magali Maestro (Frente de Todos-Santa Fe) was one of the last to be discussed in the long session which began after noon. He had broad support. with 146 votes in favor, 10 against and 2 abstentions, and now passed to the Senate for final approval. The debate was involved in controversy and moments of tension because the PRO block got up and left the venue, just before the vote.
Cristian Ritondo, head of that bench, he had unsuccessfully asked for a postponement to review the project (together with another from deputy and former referee Héctor Baldassi, to implement protocols on gender violence in clubs) and which will continue to be treated when the session resumes next week.
But the room order of the Ritondo interval was rejected by roll call, with very few votes (102 affirmative, 107 negative), after which the PRO bank she left the locals angry at the ruling party’s “lack of chivalry” in not granting them revision.
“Because they lose the game they leave with the ball under their arm, it can’t be”, whipped Alejandro Topo Rodriguezhead of the federal interlock, who had a firm but polite exchange with Fernando Iglesias (PRO) before this force left the plenary session.
Sport and “machismo”
Entering the debate, Mastaler of Santa Fe – a young 31-year-old MP on the field – defended her project which, among other things, seeks to “create gender protocols and departments in all sports associations” and what ” I think it generates noise, proposing a system of progressive equality in the integration of the management commissions ”of Argentine sports, he added many applauses from his desk.
Also with the categories of feminism, Estela Hernández (Frente de Todos-Chubut) added her: “It annoys that women and diversities can find themselves in the places of power where decisions are made” and he said that sport has always been a “macho and patriarchal” place.
But the thing went further when the Buenos Aires Carla Carrizo (Radical Evolution) argued that “we women who are here are here to give equality to Argentine women. Not for us who occupy a seat in the Chamber “. She explained that the project as it was proposed was for parity only in the “first degree” associations, ie neighborhood clubs.
“There are no associations, no national federations, no AFA! -he stressed- and we need more women where power is experienced with greater intensity “.
Then the Rio Negro Luigi Di Giacomo (head of the United Provinces Interblock) expressed his support: “When who would disagree with the name of the alleged deputy caught my attention Wall who is not on the payrollyou can see that many are influenced or will lose a trip to Qatar… ”, he spread ironies and suspicions in front of alleged“ lobbies ”of the president of the Alfa Claudio Chiqui Tapia, against the initiative.
Maximiliano Ferraro, of the Civic Coalition, abstained in the vote and motivated: «This breaks with the criterion of the right of the associative end. If there is a sports association for women in vulnerable populations, why expect equality from them? This breaks and sets a precedent for other types of specific purpose associations, ”she warned.
At that point, and after the frictions due to what happened with the PRO, the head of the UCR block Mario Negri clarified that they gave freedom of action on their bench but he told the Front of All that “we are ending this session badly, what has been done is not good, no one celebrates, because no one was preventing anything”.
This Thursday, the deputy from the ruling party, Rogelio Iparraguirre, close to Máximo Kirchner, was one of the first to speak openly about the events of the previous night. kept that “There is a very strong lobby, especially in the world of football, a male chauvinist lobby, It must be said with all the letters, “he told Diputados TV.” And the project turned out to be better than expected, let’s imagine the Alfa in five years with gender equality, or any of the national sports institutions, “he celebrated.
According to the changes that the radical Carrizo agreed with the camper Mastaler, the requirement of gender equality that was going to affect the civil sports associations of the first degree (society), it was extended to those of the second degree (federations, unions, leagues and the like), of national representation (national federations and confederations) and superiors of the Institutional System of Sport and Physical Activity. The AFA as well as associations of its kind, including, according to esplicó the deputy Carrizo a Clarione.
During the first year, as a rule, the lists must have 20% of female candidates; three years after the enactment of the law, in 30%; and at five years equality between women and men must be respected. The project played for the second time now in the Senate.
Protocol in situations of gender-based violence
The second project approved in relation to sport was the protocol in situations of violence and gender discrimination, with which all affected entities must have. This project by the former referee Baldassi -responsible for the Sports Commission- it was approved with 150 votes in favor, 3 against and 4 abstentionseven if Baldassi, like the rest of his block, could not be present at the time of the vote.
Source: Clarin
