Rosario Graciano de los Santos spoke at the roundtable on “Difficulties of the Political Representation of Women in Latin America, the road to equality”, and she suggested that the Central Electoral Board has recommended that the candidates to the Chamber of Deputies and city councils should be 50% female under an alternating system. The issue was debated yesterday at the roundtable discussion, organized by the JCE and the Spanish International Agency for Development and the United Nations Development Program. Graciano de los Santos said that “parity with respect to the fielding of candidates cannot be put off.” The titular member of the Central Electoral Board said that the JCE had included such a measure in its suggestions for changes to the Election Law with reference to article 39 of the Constitution that guarantees equality between men and women. The legislative proposal is currently in the Chamber of Deputies. At the present time the law requires a 33% participation of female candidates.