NCLW: Only the electoral quota can redress women’s low representation

The National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) held a meeting on Friday to discuss the ‎data on the recent participation of women in municipal elections based on a survey study carried ‎out by Information International. The said survey showed similarities in results between the 2010 ‎and 2016 municipal elections figures, whereby the number of women candidates (in all Lebanon) ‎has risen from 1346 to 1485 women nominees, and the share of women winners has increased ‎from 4.7% in 2010 to 5.6% in 2016. During the meeting, NCLW vice president, Randa Assi ‎Berri, underlined the following: “If the result of the increase in the rate of participation in ‎municipal elections which occurs every six years barely reaches 1 to 2%, this means that we need ‎some 250 years to realize the sought justice or parity between men and women.” The shortest ‎solution to this sad reality, Berri added, is the adoption of a women’s representation quota as a ‎temporary and transitional answer to the inadequate participation of women in public and ‎political life. (Al Mustaqbal, July 2, 2016)‎

 

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