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In France, parties penalised for not including women on their electoral lists
20-6-2017
The minister of state for administrative development affairs, Inaya Izzedine, said Lebanese women are not marginalized or oppressed by the law or the Constitution, but rather by practice. The right to run for elections is theirs since 1953, but they are deterred by a dominating male chauvinist society, Izzedine lamented in a radio talk show interview. Everyone has supported reform and change to this end, “but the issue was never tackled properly or seriously,” she said, urging Lebanese women to run for parliamentary elections, despite non-inclusion of the women’s quota by the recently endorsed electoral system. Izzedine explained the purpose of the representation quota which is “equality in the take-off point”, because, as she said, “the patriarchal mindset needs time to be transformed.” The woman who assumes responsibility, ought to become resolute as a political party member, Izzedine concluded. It should be noted, that the results of this June’s French Parliamentary elections brought a record victory for women, 223 females out of 577 elected MPs, equivalent to 38.65% of the total parliamentary seats. Some have largely attribute this achievement to a previous decisions by President Emmanuel Macron in August 2014, when as minister of economy, he endorsed a law that increased twofold financial penalties on any political party that fails to comply with gender equality in their elections lists. (An Nahar, Al Diyar, June 20, 2017)
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