Tunisia: Call for The Return of Electoral Gender Parity

Tunisia: Call for The Return of Electoral Gender Parity

According to preliminary results the second round of Tunisian parliamentary elections has delivered a very low number of 25 women parliamentarians for the First Chamber reflecting poor rate of women’s electoral participation.

This concerning decline in women’s electoral representation as stated, is due to the persisting gaps and loopholes in the new electoral law, by women and human rights organisations in Tunisia.

As an organisation that since 2011 is supporting gender and democracy in Tunisia and in the wider MENA region, also by observing many elections with local women and human rights organisations, Gender Concerns International considers this disengagement of citizen in recent elections as a protest against the attempts of derailing democracy in Tunisia.

We support the demand for the return of full democracy and the Electoral Gender Parity in Tunisia in order to bring peace, stability and prosperity in the country and the region.