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Women in 2018 elections: candidacy is stronger in urban areas, weaker in regions
24-4-2018
In its Saturday’s issue, Al Akhbar newspaper published an article by Dr. Shabib Diab on women running for the upcoming parliamentary elections, mentioning a total of 85 out of 111 women originally enlisted (from all 976 men and women candidates) by the end of the deadline for registering the electoral lists on March 26. The majority of those women, Diab noticed, are holders of university degrees, some coming from the media and law fields or are social, community and, especially, environment activists. On the national arena, the article indicated that 46% of female nominees are Muslims compared to 54% Christians, while noting that legislative seats are equally divided between the two religious communities. The number of female candidates, according to the article, is the highest in Beirut governorate (33 candidates), followed by Mount Lebanon (30), the North (15), Beqaa (10), Akkar (9), Baalbaq-Hermel and the South (5 candidates each) and finally, Nabatiyeh (4 female nominees). The strength of the female candidacy, according to Diab, is concentrated in the urban center and gradually weakens towards the regions. In order to identify the differences between the electoral constituencies and the level of women’s political participation. Dr. Diab based his study on an index that compares the number of female candidates in the constituencies to the number of female voters. In the outcome, Beirut 2nd Constituency came first, (with one woman nominee for every 8.1,000 women electors), followed by the Metn district (one female nominee for 8.3 thousand female voters). On the other hand, the Nabatiyeh district recorded one female candidate for every 57.5 female electors, followed by Tyre-Zahrani (one female candidate for every 50.3 thousand female electors). Akkar was placed in the middle, representing the national average of the number of female candidates against the number of female voters. (The article can be found on the following link: https://bit.ly/2HJHn1). (Al Akhbar, April 21, 2018)
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