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To make up for the electoral quota, Aoun urges women to run for Parliament
19-6-2017
Lebanese President Michel Aoun expressed on Friday his disappointment that the new electoral law did not include women’s quota. He urged more women to run for Parliament especially that the Constitution does not discriminate between men and women running for candidacy. Aoun said he hoped political parties would include women nominees on their lists, while noting that the vote law based on proportionality “allows for a larger representation contrary to the majoritarian law.” Similarly, the head of the Lebanese Welfare Association for the Handicapped (LWAH), Randa Assi Berri, congratulated all political forces for enacting a proportional voting system which divides the country into 15 electoral districts, denouncing at the same time the failure to include the 30% women’s quota. Speaking on behalf of the Lebanese Women Affairs Association, Amal Movement’s Women’s Affairs division and the National Alliance in Support of Women Political Participation in Lebanon, Berri wondered why women have been absent from the deliberations that led to endorsement of said law. “Any electoral system that ignores the right of a woman to be represented in Parliament lacks national credibility by virtue of the Constitution. This credibility is not measured by sectarian representation standards, but rather by a nationwide partnership between all the human and state components that make the nation,” Berri stated. Does not the proportional system represent all segments of society, aren’t women half the society, why are they warded off? (An Nahar, Al Mustaqbal, L’Orient Le Jour, June 17, 2017)
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