POLI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Judicial Independence, Constitution, Constitutionalism
28 Sep 2014
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Race, gender, religion, language, political opinion, social status, nationality/ethnic origin: no post-communist constitutions mention sexual orientation, but the. Hungarian and romanian have inserted this equality right. Free from discrimination in regards to sexual orientation: french constitutional council decision in 1992 rejected electoral reform introducing an implicit quota for women who wanted to run for office. It envisioned that parties when coming up with lists of candidates could not have lists that were made up of more than 75% people from the same gender implicitly this is a 25% quota for women. Law was challenged by opposition and constitutional council scrapped the law and legislative majority complied with the decision. The decision was based on the 1789 principal of equality and prioritized it over the 1946 bill of rights proclaiming the goal of the. French republic to have equality for men and women.
