THE ORGANISATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES: DOES THE POLITICAL GAME REMAIN MASCULINE? decisive role in shaping the party's political agenda, as well as in selecting and validating candidates for the various types of elections(both through explicit regulatory mechanisms and procedures, as well as through implicit and informal practices specific to the functioning of power networks and leadership within political parties). A greater presence of women in these structures is likely(although the relationship is not a causal one) to ensure both a greater presence of women on electoral rolls and the promotion of a political agenda that represents the interests of women. Figure 2 Representation of women in the governing structures of parliamentary parties, 2021 21% 27% AAUURR 79% 15% PLUS 73% 20% 8% PNL 92% 19% PSD 85% Source: authors' calculations. UDMR 80% USR 81% Women Men 7