Taylor undercuts Ley on gender quotas, saying they ‘subvert democracy’
Angus Taylor hit gender quotas for political parties, and the opposition leader Sussan Ley reduced his openness to the idea only six weeks after the couple fought a bitter war for the liberal party leadership.
Ley, days after giving an address to the National Press Club, the party’s state sections see them as a solution to gender equality, said that they would take into account the quotas, the Labor Party’s quotas of the “demolished democracy” before claiming that mentoring and recruitment support was a better alternative.
Next: Angus Taylor and Sussan Ley.Credit: Eamon Gallagher, James Brickwood
Taylor said, orum I believe in democratic processes and I do not believe in destroying them, but I know that my past experiences are the way to make sure that you have people who need people you need, ”he said. Radio NATION Friday.
“The Labor Party works will do their own ways. And they are destroying democracy, and this is a matter for them, if you have quotas at the end of the day, it means that you will destroy democratic processes.”
Taylor’s opposition open to quotas creates a war on how to recruit more women in the party.
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Gender imbalance in the liberal party deputies barely changed in ten years. Although the party is 50 percent, only one -third of the liberal deputies is a woman. Labor has been a quota system for decades and 56 percent of MPs are women.
At that time, when the opposition leader Peter Dutton lost his seat, Ley was leading to 25 of Taylor in a 29 -vote razor margin.
Senior Labor Minister Tanya Plibersek, Taylor’s party has not changed since the election as a proof of his comments.
