Ini yg disebut Arab Winter dan Islam Spring. From: Sunny <am...@tele2.se> >To: undisclosed-recipi...@yahoo.com >Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:32 PM >Subject: [proletar] Libya drops election quota for women > > > >http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article565904.ece >Libya drops election quota for women >By REUTERS > >Published: Jan 20, 2012 18:54 Updated: Jan 20, 2012 23:16 > >TRIPOLI: Libya will scrap a proposal for 10 percent of seats in a new national >assembly to be set aside for women, a Western diplomat who is engaged in >discussions with the Libyan election committee told Reuters on Friday. > >The new, 200-member assembly is set to be elected in June to draw up a >constitution after the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi last year. > >Last month, the interim ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) posted a >draft election law on its website and asked people to comment on it as part of >a plan to engage the population in the democratic process. The draft called >for 20 seats to be set aside for women. > >“After the draft election law was posted on the NTC website for feedback from >the public, 80 percent of the 14,000 e-mails received (by the NTC) were >against the quota, including women’s rights groups,” the diplomat said. > >Some Libyan women’s rights groups still support the quota, and say it should >be made higher - perhaps more than 50 percent to reflect a majority female >population in the country. > >Among other changes from the original draft, members of parliament will be >elected from separate constituencies, rather than competing countrywide. > >The United Nations had urged Libya to hold elections in constituencies, which >ensures all regions are represented and makes it easier to limit fraud than in >a countrywide tally where problematic results in one area can taint the entire >outcome. > >A rule barring holders of multiple nationalities from voting will also be >scrapped, and the new rules relax a ban on members of the NTC running for >seats. The ban was put in place to emphasize a change in power from the >internationally recognized but self-appointed NTC to the new elected body. > >“Political figures and NTC members are still forbidden from running in the >elections to teach people about the transfer of power, but the NTC thought >that banning members of the local NTC councils would be unnecessary,” the >diplomat said. > >“Local NTC council members will be allowed to run.” > >Libyans with ties to Qaddafi will still be banned from running in elections, >as will academics who wrote about Qaddafi’s “Green Book,” containing his >musings on politics, economics and everyday life. > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > >
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