| Description : Andorran men over the age of 27 have had the right to
vote since 1933. On the 18th of May 1967 a group of Andorran women demanded the right to present a petition to
the General Council, spurred on by the beginning of feminist movements in other European countries, that Parliament grant
them the right to vote and the right to be elected. The group received a total of 378 signatures from women over
25 years of age, who had the right to sign. The General Council did not react to the initiative until the 4th of
July 1969, when the right for women to vote was recognised , but not their eligibility to vote. On the 14th of
April 1970 it was decreed that 'all women who had full Andorran citizenship would have the right to vote on equal
terms with men'. Women voted for the first time on the 14th of December 1971 and on the 24th of May 1973
the General Council recognised the right of Andorran women to stand for election. The coin depicts the face of a woman,
framed by curved lines symbolising consecutive Catalan female first names. This is intended to symbolise solidarity for
women in the fight for their rights. The coin was designed by the artist Judit Gaset Flinch from La Seu
d'Urgell, at the top of the coin is a semicircular inscription "50 ANYS DEL SUFRAGI UNIVERSAL FEMENÍ"
(50 years of universal women's suffrage) and bottom right "ANDORRA 1970‐2020". Andorran coins are minted
alternately in the countries of the princes of Andorra; in 2020 this was the turn of the Royal Mint Real Casa de la
Moneda in Madrid. |
