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Claudine Rukuz: Political parties have role in raising women’s political participation
5-4-2019
The head of the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW), president of the Supreme Council of Arab Women Organization, Claudine Aoun Rukuz, reminded of the low representation level of women in the Parliament. She pointed out that NCLW is working to push lawmakers to approve the women representation quota, on the one hand, and is working in parallel with political parties to this effect. Rukuz was speaking at the workshop on ‘the political representation of women in Lebanon’ organized by NCLW, in collaboration with ESCWA Center for Women (ECW). Rukuz explained that the current electoral law, based on the proportional system, boasts big chances of success to candidates running on political parties lists. Hence, political parties have key role in any procedure that raises women’s representation in the Legislature. Rukuz revealed the Commission’s intention to open channels of dialogue with said parties and discuss obstacles impeding Lebanese women’s advancement inside the organizational cadre of parties, which eventually prevents the adequate nomination of women by those parties. (Al Diyar, April 5, 2019)
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