So you're saying "not everyone who gets a promotion deserved it". Well, I don't think anybody would disagree with that, but how do you go from "we need more meritocracy" to "let's pass a law that rewards people because of their sex and not their merit"? We want equality, so let's discriminate against men.

When I say equality, I mean equal opportunity, while feminists usually mean equal outcome (to be accomplished through discrimination), or more generally anything that improves the condition of women.

Can they all be wrong? What's interesting is that this legislation was backed by a three-party coalition. 60% of the members of parliament are men. Can they all be wrong? Can they all be feminists?

Of course they can all be wrong, a lie repeated by a hundred people is still a lie. Maybe they're not all feminists in the sense that they identify as feminists, but feminism is one of the dominant cultural paradigms in modern Western society and most people operate within that paradigm, simply because it's what they grew up with and they never seriously questioned it. They're taught from a young age that feminism is about equality, and if you're not a feminist you're a misogynist.

For politicians it's also a matter of appealing to the female voters, obviously. Some of the men who voted for this law might very well be aware of the injustice they're contributing to create, but lack the courage to speak against it, as they know they would be offering the side to accusations of sexism.

I read that article you linked, which is interesting but written from a feminist viewpoint. It asks whether quotas have helped women, why they haven't been as helpful as they were supposed to, what can be done to further give women more power- the unstated premise is that if it's good for women, it can't be wrong. Men don't matter, and neither do principles. Feminism is about power, equality is just a smokescreen.