Algeria: As Algerian Elections Approach, Quota Set for Female Candidates

Soumis par iKNOW Politics le Thu, 10/25/2012 - 01:06

Thu, 10/25/2012 - 01:06

Algeria: As Algerian Elections Approach, Quota Set for Female Candidates

Interior Minister Dahou Ould Kablia described the fatwa issued by the Scientific Council of the Ibadi Confession in Ghardaia forbidding the nomination of women in local elections in the province as an “internal fatwa that concerns a particular community.''

At a press conference held yesterday [Oct. 17] on the sidelines of the installment of the Independent Electoral Commission, the interior minister said that “the Interior Ministry agencies will act according to the law, and any electoral list which does not include the stipulated number of women candidates will be excluded.”

Read more at AL Monitor, published 20 October 2012.

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