The plan to have five regional seats reserved for women beginning in the general election this year has been shelved, a senior government official told a parliamentary committee yesterday.
Ivan Pomaleu, the secretary to the Department of Prime Minister and National Executive Council, told the committee looking into gender-based violence, that Cabinet on Dec 15 last year directed some State agencies to deliberate on the matter.
“The directive was that we engage with party leaders (to get) their views, which we did towards the end of July,” he said.
“(But) only two political parties gave their views; the others didn’t.”
Pomaleu said in terms of timing, “we could potentially work on getting the changes in the next parliament – (but) certainly not in this parliament”.
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