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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, once again, I thank you for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. I congratulate Sen. Naomi Waqo for coming up with this Motion. I sit closely with her in the Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration where she is Vice Chair. I note that this Motion has been long overdue; probably drawn, filed and she has been waiting to prosecute it. She waited probably until the two-third gender rule debate in the other House was undertaken. It is as if it was meant to strengthen that debate and put our say as a Senate to that debate that has been going on. Nonetheless, affirmative action and promoting women in appointive and elective positions is still a current issue. As we speak, the two-thirds gender rule Bill that was in the National Assembly did not meet the threshold and, therefore, solve the problem that we have in elective positions. So, we are still where we are. Women in this country are not in the rightful place in terms of positions and making decisions. That is why we keep talking. We will never tire to keep pressing and making sense. Many people know of the sense we are talking about. Many of them support us but somehow for some reason, it never comes to be as we wish. As we speak, even before we look at the elective positions that we have, in the Cabinet, there is no gender balance. The two-third gender balance is not there. It is just being taken as if it is normal even as much as we make noise all over. We expect that the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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