Efforts to enlist media women candidates in elections

In the framework of stepping up the participation of women in elections, Al Akhbar newspaper mentioned the involvement of more leftist activists in the movement led by former minister Charbel Nahas. One of those approached was the New TV media figure, Rabi’a Zayat, who was asked last Friday to nominate herself for the Tyre constituency in South Lebanon, but who decided to linger. Also according to Al Akhbar, the Lebanese Forces LF party chief, Samir Geagea, dispatched party officials to negotiate with MTV news anchor Jessica Azar to run on the LF’s North Matn electoral list, as well as, the environmental activist Nadine Mussa for the same constituency. On the other hand, and as part of the Lebanese Elections Assistance Project, the European Union on Friday organized awareness-raising debates with focus on women nominees and Lebanese voters in general. The debates allowed to identify women from the various Lebanese regions who wished to run for candidacy and to provide them with the required technical support and alliance-building tactics. The head of the EU Delegation to Lebanon in her address to all Lebanese women said: “We are counting on you to claim your political space should you be still timid in submitting your candidacy. Do not hesitate and go ahead, contribute to your local communities and engage in the civil society and women’s associations and vote for your peers,” she said. (Al Akhbar, March 3, 5, 2018)
 

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