Female political electoral participation in Santander during the National Front or Alternation of Political Parties in Colombia

Abstract

This article analyzes the political participation of women in Santander for the National Front in two legislative bodies at local and departmental: Bucaramanga City Council and the Departmental Assembly. To understand the importance of this participation is important to mention that the National Front was the 16-year period in which the Liberal and Conservative parties formed a pact of political change as expeditiously formula to end more than two decades of partisan violence in which the women started his political life as citizens with the right to elect and be elected, after an advocacy process started in the 30s and culminated in 1954 with the granting of voting rights by the Study Commission constitutional during the presidency of General Rojas Pinilla. But the joy with which Santanderean women participated both in the 1957 plebiscite which approved the National Front and the right to citizenship, as in the first elections of 1958 in which participated for the first time as candidates, petered out during the 16 years, leaving a bittersweet taste for equality expectations were not met although minority inclusion in political decision-making on behalf of the interests of the political parties which had membership for their family ties, mostly union.