Cecilia Soto, former presidential candidate: “There is parity but men continue to hold power in the parties”

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Cecilia Soto, former presidential candidate: “There is parity but men continue to hold power in the parties”

Three decades have passed since Cecilia Soto (Hermosillo, Sonora, 74), the second woman to be elected president of the Labour Party (PT), raised her hand by a party to hold the presidency and was in those convulsive 1994 elections. Sitting in her apartment room in Mexico City, the opposition coalition adviser today recalls the fear of ridicule she felt when she was invited to represent the party, followed by a sense of guilt for leaving her youn…