ALGIERS- The State is working for “a qualitative leap to ensure an effective participation of women in the elected assemblies,” said Tuesday, in Algiers, Minister of Interior and Local Authorities Noureddine Bedoui.
In his closing speech of the training session for elected women, organized in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-Algeria, Bedoui said that this action is part of the “State’s constant concern for a sustainable development based on skilled human resources,” adding that it is an adaptation to the last revision of the Constitution, particularly regarding the encouragement by the State of a participatory democracy at the level of local authorities.”
This training programme is part of “the promotion of women’s political rights, a constitutional principle, by extending their representativeness in the elected assemblies.”
Underlining “the State’s determination to expand the participation of women in the political action” as Algeria is going to organize legislative and local elections in 2017, the minister said that “Algeria has a comfortable position among major democracies in terms of equal opportunities between men and women notably in the political action.”
In this regard, Bedoui pointed out women’s achievements thanks to the promotion of their political rights during the last decade, adding that “this couldn’t have been possible without the political willingness of President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika who has always worked to grant women the position that suits them.”
In this regard, the minister recalled “the adoption of compulsory quota system in the electoral rolls,” initiated by President Bouteflika when he “took up the challenge, made a change and validated legal frameworks to open the political field to women,” stressing that these laws, including the organic n° 12-03 defining the modes of broadening women’s representativeness opportunities in the elected assemblies, are considered as “qualitative leap” in the democratic practice in Algeria.
Source: State wants “qualitative leap” for women’s effective participation in elected assemblies
