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EU recommends to Lebanon women quota, equality
18-7-2018
The president of the EU Election Observation Mission Lebanon 2018, Elena Valenciano, presented in a press conference yesterday the Mission’s final report which she handed to President Michel Aoun, pointing out that the assessment was very constructive (cf: http://lkdg.org/ar/node/17636). The report put forward 25 recommendations, including six which Valenciano described as essential. These are related to: the women quota as a transitional step to ensure better representation for women in Parliament; enhancement of the principle of gender equality; adjustment of the nationality law to enable Lebanese women to confer nationality to their family members; reform of the law to give the Lebanese woman the freedom to choose whether to move her civil status to her husband’s hometown registry or not; increasing the financial and administrative freedom of the Elections Monitoring Committee with relation to the ministry of interior and amendment of the elections law in terms of free and impartial access to the media in order to guarantee the rights of citizens in accessing relevant data. For his part, the chief observer Jose Antonio De Gabriel sustained that the above report does not necessarily reflect the official position of the EU, but rather conveys the reality in the way the election process took place, including the casting of ballots by electors, registration of candidates, political parties, electoral campaigning and media coverage of elections, the participation of women and people with special needs, the performance of local and international observers, and all the process from the ballot box to vote counting, the announcement of results and the post-election atmosphere and recommendations. (For more about the recommendation in Arabic, please visit: https://bit.ly/2LpDE7r)
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