# Women's Suffrage Petition (15 May 1968)

URL: https://allhistories.com/andorra/timeline/1968-women-s-suffrage-petition
Location: Casa de la Vall, Andorra la Vella, Andorra
Themes: Key Events

Under the electoral reforms of the 1930s only Andorran men over 25 could vote, and women had no political rights at all. In the mid-1960s a group of Andorran women, among them Quima Calvó and Carme Travesset, began organising to claim the vote, encouraged by the social changes brought by tourism and by the example of women's movements elsewhere in Europe. On 15 May 1968 the women presented a petition, or 'súplica', to the Consell General at the Casa de la Vall asking for political rights. Accounts give the number of signatures as about 370 to 400; the Consell General's own history mentions around 400, while a recent study counts 378. Each signatory needed her husband's approval to sign. Some English-language sources date the petition to 1969. The petition was the first collective political action by Andorran women and is regarded as the founding moment of the suffrage movement. It led directly to the granting of the vote in 1970 and the right to stand for office in 1973. In 2026 the Consell General installed an embroidered artwork in its headquarters commemorating the signatories.

## Why it matters
The 1968 petition launched the campaign that gave Andorran women the vote within two years.

Ruler at the Time: [Ramón Iglesias i Navarri](https://allhistories.com/andorra/rulers/ramon-iglesias-i-navarri)

President of the French Republic, Co-Prince of Andorra: Charles de Gaulle
Syndic General of Andorra: Francesc Escudé i Ferrero (Non-partisan)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia — Women's suffrage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage)
- [Consell General — El Consell en la història: el segle XX](https://www.consellgeneral.ad/fitxers/documents/consell-en-la-historia/3-el-segle-xx)
- [Alto Andorra — Tribute to the 1968 women's suffrage petition](https://www.alto.ad/politics/2026/06/andorra-council-suffragette-artwork-women)
- [Wikipedia — Carme Travesset](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carme_Travesset)
- [Wikipedia — Tourism And Transformation (period overview)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Andorra)