I had a conversation today with a leader of one of the women’s NGOs about the new election code which introduced the temporary measures on increasing the number of women in parliament. Now the party lists have to include no more than 70% of the people of one gender. The Kyrgyz parties are out for finding women. But they put a woman as every fourth person on party lists.
Kyrgyz parties in search for women
November 5, 2007 · 1 Comment
Categories: Decision-making
Tagged: parliament, quota, women
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Die Parlamentswahlen rücken näher… « Bishkek // November 28, 2007 at 2:33 pm |
[...] die zumindest auf den Wahlzetteln erfüllt werden muss: 1/3 der Kandidaten hat weiblich zu sein (Fieberhafte Last-Minute-Kandidatinnen-Rekrutierung war die Folge), jedoch wird erwartet, dass in realitas nicht mal 10% den Sprung ins Parlament [...]