Elections
Korhogo, Nov 18, 2022 (AIP)- The Coordination Committee for Women's Participation (2C2PF), began on Friday, November 18, 2022, in Korhogo, the training of 25 women with a view to their participation in the 2023 regional and municipal elections.
According to the trainer, N'Deté Clovis Delacroix of 2c2pf, expert in gender, law and electoral governance, the training is part of the project "at the school of candidates". It aims to strengthen the capacities of women politicians, declared candidates or potential candidates, by providing them with the necessary basics.
The training revolves around the obstacles to women's political participation, the legal mechanisms for promotion, the different stages of regional and municipal elections, the means of redress in the event of a dispute, political campaign strategies, mobilization and research. of financing.
Click here to read the full article published by Agence Ivoirienne de Presse on 18 November 2022.
New history was created as eight women made it into the highest floor of democracy.
The women winners in the second round are Jalila Alawi (Eight Electoral District of the Capital Governorate), Iman Showaiter (Tenth Electoral District of the Capital Governorate), Maryam Al Dhaen (Second Electoral District of the Southern Governorate), Lulwa Al Rumaihi (Tenth Electoral District of Southern Governorate), Maryam Al Saegh (Fifth Electoral District of Northern Governorate), Basma Mubarak (Eleventh Electoral District of Northern Governorate).
The Supreme Committee for General Supervision of Elections to the Parliament and Municipal on Saturday night declared the election results.
Click here to read the full article published by News of Bahrain on 21 November 2022.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, ending a historic run as the first woman with the gavel and making way for a new generation to steer the party after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in the midterm elections.
In a spirited speech on the House floor, Pelosi announced that she will step aside after leading Democrats for nearly 20 years and in the aftermath of the brutal attack on her husband, Paul, last month in their San Francisco home — and after having done “the people’s work.”
The California Democrat, a pivotal figure in U.S. history and perhaps the most powerful speaker in modern times, said she would remain in Congress as the representative from San Francisco, a position she has held for 35 years, when the new Congress convenes in January.
Click here to read the full article published by AP News on 18 November 2022.
The 2022 Fiji general election, for 55 seats in the Parliament, will take place on 14 December 2022. So far 316 provisional candidates have been named from 8 of the 9 political parties of which 55 are women—17 per cent of the total number. The figure is likely to increase with more provisional names expected to be announced soon. A political party may nominate up to 55 candidates by midday of 14 November 2022.
In the 2018 Fiji general election, for 51 seats in the Parliament, which took place on 14 November, 235 candidates from 6 political parties stood for the elections. Of the total, 56 of the candidates were women—24 per cent of the total number. This was an increase in the number of women standing compared to the 2014 general elections. The 2018 election brought a record number of women into parliament, where women held 10 of the 51 seats (20 per cent). Therefore, there was approximately 4 per cent attrition rate when compared to the number of candidates that ran.
Click here to read the full article published by International IDEA on 15 November 2022.
The Democrat takes over as the second Black mayor in LA’s history, beating a rival who spent over $80m of his own money on the race
The congresswoman Karen Bass was elected mayor of Los Angeles, defeating billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso and becoming the first woman to run the second-largest city in the US.
The Democrat, who has served as a US representative for more than a decade, had amassed an insurmountable lead of nearly 47,000 votes, with 70% of the votes counted, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday, nearly one one week after the election. Caruso had a slight lead in the first counts after the polls closed, but Bass soon surpassed him and steadily increased her lead as ballots were counted.
Bass, who will also become the second Black mayor in LA’s history, overcame a huge financial disadvantage. Caruso poured more than $100m (£87m) of his own money into his campaign, which spent roughly ten times as much as the congresswoman’s.
Click here to read the full article published by The Guardian on 17 November 2022.
The first round of polls held to elect the new Parliament and Municipal Councils on Saturday created many milestones in Bahrain in terms of participation.
Among them was the record number of women and youth who queued up to cast their ballots across the nation.
According to the head of the Legislation and Legal Opinion Commission and the Executive Director of Parliamentary and Municipal Elections 2022, Nawaf Abdullah Hamza, 48 per cent of female voters and 45 per cent of youth participated in the grand celebration of the Kingdom’s democratic process.
Click here to read the full article published by the Daily Tribune – News of Bahrain on 15 November 2022.