The next legislature of the Portuguese parliament will have fewer female MPs after 76 women were elected on Sunday, taking up 33.6% of the 226 seats already allocated.
After the parity law was revised in 2019, setting the minimum percentage of each gender on electoral lists at 40%, the results of the 2022 legislative elections were already insufficient, with 85 elected representatives representing 37.0% of parliament.
With only European and non-European votes (four seats in total) remaining to be counted, that goal is now even further away, according to preliminary results from Sunday’s legislative elections published by the Home Office.
Among the nine parties represented in the next legislature, only 76 women were elected.
In addition to the PAN, which elected Ines Sousa Real as its only deputy, the Esquerda Bloc (BE) is the party with the largest representation of women: of the five mandates won, three women were elected (60%), followed by the PS. , while among the 77 deputies there are 30 women (39%).
In total, the SDP and SDS-NP elected 79 deputies, of which 24 are women (30.1%), and the Chegi parliamentary bench will be occupied by 13 women deputies (27.1%).
Three of the eight Liberal Initiative (IL) deputies are women (37.5%), while the PCP and Livre also elected one woman out of four seats won.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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