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I voted against this report because I disagree with the measures the rapporteur recommends to ensure a balanced representation between men and women. I totally reject this illegitimate attempt to interfere in the internal political organisation of the Member States and the ongoing confusion between equality and egalitarianism.
Adopting legislative measures for positive discrimination that facilitate women’s access to political posts must always be considered very carefully, so as not to distort the genuine rules of democracy and of free choice and also not to offend and discriminate against women who, of their own free will and on their own merits, have risen to the highest positions without any artificial mechanisms to promote them.
The approach adopted by the rapporteur belongs to the radical feminist clique, which appears to have hijacked the committee in which this report originated. This approach does not match the vision and the concerns of most European women who, on a daily basis, prove their worth without any complexes about their standing and without giving in to or wanting to impose a sexist approach.
I must also emphasise, to add a little humour, both the veiled threat of civil disobedience that the rapporteur slipped in, on the grounds of a supposed breakdown in the ‘legitimacy of decision-making’ and the arrogance of ‘rewriting’ the ‘social contract’ by decree."@en1
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