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Women in parliament & cabinet caught in traditional politics
17-4-2019
In its issue of today, Al Diyar newspaper highlighted the female presence within the Legislature and the Cabinet, pointing to the 6 women lawmakers and 4 ministers. Some of them, Al Diyar wrote, managed to sustain their distinction and to carry on with the same perseverance paving the way for scores of women to engage in the country’s political life. On the other hand, Al Diyar went on to say, female members in political parties have not taken any remarkable political stand, not even during strategic occasions leaving the say to their party leadership. Women MPs, the newspaper said, should be in the lead to express their opinions through media, regardless if their views were consistent with their political party. The Lebanese society, the newspaper noted, needs to adapt more to the idea that women are capable of taking part in political debate, rather than contemplating the mindset which depicts them as copycats of existing views. Al Diyar explained that the work of the 5 partisan MPs (Inaya Ezzedeen, Strida Geagea, Bahia Hariri, Rula Tabsh and Dima Jamali) has remained within the political framework of their respective parties, focusing on the development work in their areas. In parallel, MP Paula Yacoubian, successfully forged a new trend and reality inside the Legislature, noting that since her election, she has submitted some 31 proposals, almost half the number of draft bills presented since the start of the newly elected parliament in 2018. The newspaper also spotlighted the success of the ministers of interior and energy, Raya Hassan and Nada Bustani respectively, who took over key portfolios in the government. (Al Diyar, April 17, 2019)
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