Turin, 11 March - "I am absolutely against the fixing of quotas by law for women in parliament. We are fighting to obtain power, not for representation with no power." Emma Bonino opens the "Expoelette", the first international fair of elected women and equal opportunities, inaugurated today at the Lingotto in Turin. Hers is a clear no to people who ask to fix quotas for the female representation by law. Not a no to quotas but to the idea that these should be established by law. It is up to the parties to adopt initiatives with this aim according to the radical exponent who says: "I very much appreciated Fassino's idea about the fact that in the upcoming Democratic Left lists there be a 50 per cent female representation. This is different from the fact that there should be a law that establishes a quota of 30 per cent? And why of 30 per cent, adds Emma Bonino, we are the majority in the population, I don't think we are on sale or that the sales have started. In our country there is judicial discrimination and therefore there cannot be a judicial solution. The struggle should be carried out within the parties, I am for a change to the statute of the parties. We do not want to be protected but only challenged. It is not a question of representation but of decision-making powers". Expoelette, that will end next March 13th with a speech by the Minister Prestigiacomo and the presentation of the "Turin Card" opened with the "discouraging" examination of the figures as regards female representation in Italy with respect to other European countries. The presence of women in the national governments of the member states is on average of 28.6 per cent. In Italy, as in Ireland, Spain, Belgium, POrtugal and Greece it is of between 12 and 19 per cent. In the Senate in Italy women represent 8 per cent of the total; in the Lower House women mps are 11.4 per cent of the total. In the regions the female presence oscillates between 13.2 per cent for the councillors (27 out of 204) to 8.4 per cent for the council members (81 out of 960). Among the presidents of the regions, only one of them, in Umbria, is a woman. As far as the provinces are concerned, 13.6 per cent of them are women (120 out of 882), 10.2 percent female council members (292 out of 2858) and 39 per cent women presidents (4 out of 10). FInally, in the capital cities of the regions the female councillors represent 14.5 per cent of the total against 11.4 per cent of the female council members and 6.8 per cent who are female mayors.