أوغاسبيان: إغفال الكوتا النسائية أمر مؤسف في قانون الانتخاب الجديد

Please, join Jannah, Firdous, Gigi and I in the one million woman march on the Baabda Palace to protest this disgusting law and to install a woman president.

I have the utmost respect and admiration for Minister of State for Women's Affairs Jean Oghassapian for saying on Wednesday that dismissing the women's quota from the new agreed vote law was “the worst part of the election law.”

My respect for him is further exacerbated by the fact that he continues to be State Minister for Women's Affairs and fighting for women's rights despite this insignificant setback.

before being outraged about quotas, you'd better fight for lebanese women's rights first instead of playing the hypocrit pretending to care about women.... tfeh

so why has he not resigned yet in protest?

How these useless creatures hold onto power is beyond me!

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On Women's Day, Aoun Advocates Equal Legal Rights between Men and Women
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/226621

Aoun reiterated his commitment to introducing women's quota in the new election law
https://www.pressreader.com/lebanon/the-daily-star-lebanon/20170309/281625305099802

Hariri: Women's Quota Prerequisite in New Electoral Law
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/226186

Lebanese President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri have stressed on several occasions their commitment to allocate a certain quota to women to support their active participation in political life.

https://english.aawsat.com/caroline-akoum/news-middle-east/lebanese-women-call-30-percent-quota-parliamentary-seats

The fear in Lebanon is that a set-aside of Parliamentary seats for women could lead to similar provisions for other categories, such as Christian, which would be destabilizing as well as besmirching Lebanon's international reputation, not to mention contradicting other articles in the Constitution, such as,
Article 7: All Lebanese shall be equal before the law
Article 9: There shall be absolute liberty of conscience

Maybe Oghassapian can start by letting a woman take care of the Ministry of Women's Affairs. What sort of a sick joke is this?