Majority parties adopt 20% quota system for women in elections

Parties of the government majority announced plans to institute the minimum 20% quota system, as part of a set of measures meant to set in place the appropriate mechanisms likely to ensure an effective representation of women in the coming elections.

The parties, in a statement released on the occasion of the international women day (March 8), say their efforts are mobilized to this end after the government decided recently to allocate 30 parliamentary seats to women.

In their statement, the parties also pledge to use all material and human means to guarantee a wide participation of women in elections. They deemed that the poll should improve the situation of women mainly by breaking with past traditions which excluded women from elected bodies and denied them their political and constitutional rights.