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Civil and women activists protest the marginalization of women in new electoral law
15-6-2017
The exclusion of women’s quota from the newly endorsed electoral law was met with disappointment by civil society and women activists who demonstrated yesterday in Riad el Solh square to protest the missing quota and the extension to the Parliament. The Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE) circulated a statement elucidating the pros and cons of the new electoral law, where disadvantages were greater. For its part, the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) voiced discontent over the new electoral law which did not ensure minimal representation of women in the Parliament, reminding the government of the ministerial statement, which gave it the vote of confidence, and in which all officials have pledged to support inclusion of the women's quota in the projected elections law. The NCLW appealed to the various political parties to “nominate Lebanese women on their lists in order to guarantee a fair representation based on justice, impartiality and equality.” Similarly, the Progressive Women Union condemned what it described as a “premeditated intention by the authorities to marginalize the Lebanese woman in the political system.” Meanwhile, the minister of state for women’s affairs, Jean Ogassapian, declared in a television interview that he did his best to include the quota, or to ensure the presence of at least one woman in every list, which some political figures turned down, as he put it.)L’Orient Le Jour, Al Mustaqbal, June 15, 2017(
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