Efforts of last minutes to enlist women in elections

A day before closing the deadline for the nomination to the parliamentary elections, the Free Patriotic Movement named activist, Ghada Assad Assaf, to run for Beqaa 3rd constituency (Baalbaq-Hermel), Al Akhbar reported. On the same front, the British Ambassador to Lebanon Hugho Shorter after meeting Lebanese Forces, LF, leader Samir Geagea, said he hoped the Party would positively consider recruiting more women on its electoral list, expressing eagerness that this year be symbolic for women, as elections extend a real opportunity to promote their participation and representation in politics. On the other hand, Women in Power association (WIP) organized a conference yesterday entitled, ‘Success experiences: women in decision-making and their interaction with politics’ under the patronage of minister of state for women’s affairs, Jean Ogassapian. The latter pointed out that “the future is not anymore determined by gender, rather by potentials and capacities.” The constitutional institutions, he said, currently use half the resources at hand, lamenting that the absence of women is not their loss only, but that of the parliament and the nation as well. (Al Mustaqbal, Al Akhbar, March 6, 2018)
 

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