Head of the Women Empowerment Committee emanating from the Royal Committee to Modernise the Political System, Samar Hajj Hassan, said that the committee has completed its recommendations related to the parties and election bills.
Hajj Hassan told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) that the Women Empowerment Committee submitted its recommendations to the Parties and Election Committees, which in turn will study the recommendations and take a decision on them before submitting them to the Executive Council of the Royal Committee.
She pointed out that the key recommendations related to the election law were to increase the proportion of seats allocated to women in Parliament, provided that it is not less than 30 percent of the total seats in the Lower House of Parliament, and the sequencing of candidates within the national list, so that women and men are represented on the list.
The committee also recommended encouraging parties to support women in elections so that this is reflected in party financing, and recommending confronting political and electoral violence against men and women through toughening penalties, as well as recommending the abolition of phrases that include bullying against women wherever they are mentioned in the electoral law, and recommending the feminization of legal texts and phrases, including “electors, male and female candidates, male and female candidates,” and other vocabulary, and amending the electoral data in the presence of the person concerned only.
Source: Jordan News Agency