Mexico has lifted the veil of patriarchy, says Monica Soto

Mexico City. A little over two weeks before Claudia Sheinbaum officially assumes the Presidency of the Republic, the presiding magistrate of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF), Mónica Soto Fregoso, boasted before international jurists that Mexico broke the glass ceiling and removed the veil of patriarchy.

Participating in the 20th Meeting of Female Magistrates of the Highest Bodies of Justice in Ibero-America, Mónica Soto stressed that parity in Mexico is a fact at all levels of government and there will be no retroactivity.

Seventy years after women’s right to vote, today the nation – she said – is moving forward with a gender perspective and with purple lenses that allow it to overcome obstacles, and that place Mexico in the group of countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru, governed by a woman.

The country is one of the 26 countries in which a woman heads the Executive Branch, she added.

The presiding judge of the TEPJF reported that Mexico today has a Chamber of Deputies represented mostly by women; at the state level, between 2015 and 2021, the percentage of women in local congresses has increased from 27.2 percent to 49 percent; 15 women govern one state in the country.

For three decades, he said, the TEPJF has provided justice for equality, parity, and a more just Mexico.