Stories of Paraná - Paraná The majority of women

Stories of Paraná - Paraná The majority of women

The majority of women Paraná
Alzeli Bassetti

If the first cry for "Direct Elections Now" in 1984, was formed at a time of political maturation of PR, he was also detonated the big leap to the organization and integration of women in Paraná.
Until then, there was the bravery of the pioneers isolated, more focused on social than to the female condition. The movement for universal suffrage for the presidency was the agent integrator between existing associations and women's political engagement.
Newcomers to the party militancy, arising from the Campaign Palace 82 Iguaçu - in that they showed great potential - women realize the right time to participate in the political process.
Therefore, revitalized the department specific PMDB, were inserted in the zonal and organize themselves in large towns.
Won representation in the Regional Board and elected by the direct route, the first representative in the Executive.
Trimming circumstantial differences, formulated statute, whose Charter of Principles defined positions relative to the national policy and objectives expressed regarding the condition of women in state politics.
The Direct have been the platform for PR inland sow these guidelines, fostered the emergence of leaders, and spread claims that later would be taken to the Constituent Assembly.
There was even internalize the State Council and link it with the national.
A major task!
So bloomed the politicization of women and the first insert them into a nationwide movement.
Brave and determined voice and had all the time in hustings, through representatives chosen by women leaders in advance of each region of Paraná.
However barriers, some neophytes in the art of public speaking, did echo the cry for democracy and the rights of women-including citizen in Brasilia.
An unusual fact and illustrator of context occurred on a flight Curitiba-São Paulo-Brasilia, leading to the large gathering of Paraná
5,000 Brazilian women in Congress. The pilot claimed by Direct and gave it a minicomício on board with the then Mrs Beth Mendes speaking women.
Land and air exhaled democratic sentiment.
This participation with its own identity in the bravest moments Brazilians, served as a model to inspire other achievement such as the Women and Women Police, extrapolating the party boundaries, inspired and revitalized women's associations and relevant in today's society: the Association of Women Legal Careers in Boca Rouge and the Women's Bank, among many others, that daily record, the gold feather, the female presence in the historical book of Paraná.

Alzeli Bassetti, writer and translator


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.