Increasing women MPs: accelerating history With 95 votes to her name before being eliminated, entrepreneur and Labour candidate Marion Mizzi would have made it to parliament in 2017 if the gender corrective mechanism was applied. Kurt Sansone explains how 18 January 2021, 4:22pm by Kurt Sansone The gender corrective mechanism being debated in parliament is intended to boost the number of MPs of the under-represented sex by a maximum of 12 Parliament would have ended up with 79 seats after the 2017 general election if the gender corrective mechanism being proposed now was applied. Deborah Schembri and Paula Mifsud Bonnici would have been the first of 12 women candidates to hypothetically be elected to parliament in the quest to boost the number of female MPs.