Electoral law quota details

Panama

Panama

Answer
Yes
Comment

Political participation shall be governed by the principle of parity and equal participation of women and men in the internal and general electoral processes for composition, both in the internal organizational structures and in the nominations to the positions of popular election of the political parties, as well as of the parties in formation, in terms of the nominations of delegates or conventional for the congresses or constitutive convention.

All nominations of pre-candidates and candidates shall be composed of a principal of one gender, accompanied by an alternate of the other gender.  

The political parties will nominate 50% of women and 50% of men of the total of the main positions of deputies, mayors, representatives of corregimientos and councillors, corresponding to each province. (Article 373)

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