Ahead of a tripartite elections next year the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has shown the world that it is moving with time by setting a deliberate policy to allow women in the country pay 25 per cent less the nomination fees of parliamentary and local government elections.
The female aspirants, Newstime Africa understands, will pay K 150,000.00 only for the parliamentary race while those going for the ward councillorship will cough K 15,000.00 only.
And MEC has gone a step further to ask political parties to follow suit so that the campaign produces corresponding results and get the gap narrowed in the ‘male dominated top positions’ country.
We invite our users to read the complete article published June 20 2013
Ahead of a tripartite elections next year the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has shown the world that it is moving with time by setting a deliberate policy to allow women in the country pay 25 per cent less the nomination fees of parliamentary and local government elections.
The female aspirants, Newstime Africa understands, will pay K 150,000.00 only for the parliamentary race while those going for the ward councillorship will cough K 15,000.00 only.
And MEC has gone a step further to ask political parties to follow suit so that the campaign produces corresponding results and get the gap narrowed in the ‘male dominated top positions’ country.
We invite our users to read the complete article published June 20 2013