 Gender equality is a fundamental cornerstone for democracy. Moreover, gender equality, just like democracy, is a prerequisite for sustainable development and an enabler for achieving the 2030 agenda. It is an established fact that closing gender gaps in political representation will result in more inclusive policies, better service delivery, and ultimately in higher levels of human development. We have to say it out loud, a political sphere dominated by money is almost certainly a political sphere dominated by men. Democracy depends on the health of the political finance. I'd like to point out that this topic today, increasing women's participation in politics, decision-making, is really important not just for women, it's also important for men. The real legislation that is set up is the transparency of the public finance of political parties. It is an important democratic evolution. I was talking about gender budgeting when we talk about finance and accountability of political parties. Our political parties, who have all the years spent in the Parliament in relation to accountability, should add to the chapter by explaining how their means are employed, in particular in relation to men and women, and in relation to the support of women's movement within their party. If you don't have the strong background, it's very difficult for women to compete in the election. We should use so-called positive discrimination. That means that a certain amount of money should be allocated for women that want to run in politics, run for the Parliament, run at the local level. The best measures are the dispatriarchalization. We must end with machismo, the imposition, especially to all the barons of the heart. I tell you that we must help many women to be assemblies. We have to have a legislation whereby granting more, if it is state funds, additional state funds to women candidates so that they can compete with the male counterparts during the election. That is the role where men should come forward and proactively support our women so that we have women representation, if not parity, in the Parliament in the future. It's even more difficult for women to have funds, that if they don't have financial autonomy, it's not easy. We must have partners. We have the International AID, we have the European Union, we have the African Union. We have these partners that we make the sensitization to them to ask them to finance their women.