Randa Berri urges implementation of women’s quota in upcoming municipal elections

The Parliament Speaker’s wife, Randa Berri, urged for the implementation of women’s quota in the upcoming municipal and mayoral elections. Berri, who is also the deputy chair of the National Commission for Lebanese Women, called on concerned women right groups to use all the democratic means on hand to achieve this right. Berri was speaking during her sponsorship last week of a ceremony by Amal Movement’s Women Affairs Office (WAO) in the South in honor of mothers, wives and daughters of the Movement’s martyrs and this on the occasion of Mother’s Day. Berri stressed that WAO is committed to achieving one of the most essential aspect of citizenship right, namely the right of women to actively participate in various political, economic, social, environmental, cultural, educational and health fields. (Al Diyar, March 26, 2016)