Partit Demokratiku said today it believed in equality between the sexes and champions the empowerment of women. Representation in political life must not, however, come at the expense of meritocracy, or happen as a result of a Constitutional amendment offering a cosmetic change, ignoring the real problems faced by women aspiring to serve in public life.
Partit Demokratiku believes that basic democratic principles cannot be compromised, and that all persons who aspire to become members of parliament should be provided with equality of opportunity.
"Education and a cultural revolution to adjust the national mind-set will ultimately deliver a level playing field in the political arena," stated founder and PD Marlene Farrugia. "As things stand, with big party financing out of control, and with the aggressive and uncontrolled use of the respective party machines and manipulation of state broadcasting, democratic representation is already heavily compromised. This constitutional amendment only spells the death of our democracy in the guise of positive action in for female participation," she further added.
If independent thinking women were given as much airtime as their male counterparts, were equally included in all debates and party activities, and politically criticised without the sexist rubbishing actively promoted and applauded by this hypocritical government's trolls and pundits, our political landscape will change into a more representative one.
"We need to look at solutions which are not top down, but which actually create an equal platform in the daily lives of people and, by that, encourage women to go into politics. That is why we support measures which make life equal for male and female Parliamentarians, but without trying to fast-forward progress in an undemocratic way. We need to tackle the root cause to why we have less women in politics," states MEP candidate Cami Appelgren.
Women do not need hand-outs in order to succeed, Farrugia said. This counterproductive proposal encourages division instead of unity, where men and women truly pull the same rope as equals. Positive discrimination is discrimination nonetheless.
"It is becoming clearer with each passing day that the intention of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is to bring to fruition the total hijack of the highest institution in the land, using the public purse, and render it completely useless like all the other institutions it has stealthily tampered with," Farrugia said.
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