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The debate regarding the statutory introduction of gender parity in electoral lists has led, on the one hand, by those who envisage parity as a way to attain substantive between the genders. The opposition has been led by those who, on the other, reject it as going against the very principle of equality in its formal dimension, well as against the autonomy of political parties. Based on the experience of France Italy on this matter, this article discusses both sets of arguments and applies them the Spanish context. It further defends the need to bypass the theoretical parameters equality and affi rmative action in order to place the defense of electoral parity within theoretical parameters of the postliberal democratic state. It aims, therefore, at electoral parity as a conceptual requisite of the democratic state.
Ruiz et al. (Fri,) studied this question.