'FANM YO LA' ASKS THE RESPECT OF THE 30% QUOTA OF WOMEN
(Haiti Libre) -
The feminist organization "Fanm yo la", asks Prime Minister Garry Conille and President Michel Martelly, to take into account the minimum quota of 30% women, in the formation of the new Ministerial Cabinet, as voted in the amendment of the Constitution of 1987.
Ms. Lisa François of the organization regrets that "only two position of General Directorate were given to women" in the recent appointments of departmental delegates and Directors General made by the Head of State.
Deputy Ogline Pierre, a member of the G58 [new majority in the lower house] does not hesitate to condition its vote to the degree of respect by the Executive, of the 30% quota of women in the composition of the next government. "I ask the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic to integrate women into the coming government, because it is necessary that the quota is respected. Even if it can not be respected to 100%, it is necessary that we have men and women, because public affairs is a matter of women and men."
A demand that has little chance of being fully satisfied because it is non-binding, given that the amended Constitution has not been published in the official newspaper "Le Moniteur". Article 17.1 modified, which refers to a minimum quota of 30% of women in national life, has currently no constitutional legal existence. Note that Article 17.1 of the amended Constitution states:
"The principle of the quota of at least thirty percent (30%) of women is recognized at all levels of the national life, particularly in public services."
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