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Mira Wakim, Najwa Azar, women candidates promote youth, women rights
26-3-2018
In its continuous support of women’s nomination for parliamentary elections, L’Orient Le Jour spotlighted the career life of the Kataeb Party’s candidate for Tyre-Zahrani district, Mira Wakim, and Najwa Azar running on Michel Murr’s Metn electoral list. Mira Wakim, pharmacy graduate, does not come from a political family, the newspaper wrote. She wanted to contribute to change, she said, but discovered that the only possible way to do this is to join a political party. Therefore, she chose the ranks of the Kataeb (phalangist party), which largely resembles her aspirations. Wakim went on to say that, her support to the Party was first limited to activities within the pharmacy specialty, but later in 2014, she became an official member of the party’s central committee. Her ambition to participate extensively in Kataeb services pushed her to run for elections, with the full backing of current leader, Sammy Gemayel. Her electoral program, she boasted, aims basically to support young people to find jobs in the country and prevent further emigration. Azar, on the other hand, is an internal medicine physician, from a family involved in public life and close to the Murr. Her father has served as the mayor of Aintoura for 40 years, which gave her the advantage of being closer to the people and to help them in her field of work, Azar told L’Orient Le Jour. In order to extend better public service, she decided to run for elections. Azar’s electoral program focuses mainly on women’s rights and on full access to health care. If she were lucky, Azar told L’Orient Le Jour reporter, she will have to work on the inclusion of the 30% women representation quota in Parliament, and to advocate for equal pay between men and women. (L’Orient Le Jour, March 24, 26, 2018)
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