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PC Election Act to be amended: 30 percent of candidates must be female
View(s):The Government has drafted an amendment to the Provincial Councils Elections Act of 1988 to make it mandatory for 30 percent of the total number of candidates included in a nomination paper to be female.
The amendment also empowers the Commissioner of Elections to reject any nomination paper which does not contain the number of female candidates required to be nominated.
The Local Authorities Act was amended last year to make provision for 30 percent of those included in nominations lists to be female candidates for local government elections.