Constitutional quota details

The Constitution requires that women should constitute 30% of the Parliament: ‘[T]he House of Assembly shall consist of not more than seventy-six members [including] four female members specially elected from the four Regions’ (Constitution 2005, Art. 95, para. 1c). ‘The nominated members of the House shall be appointed by the King […] so that at least half of them are female’ (Constitution 2005, Art. 95, para. 2a).

‘Where at the first meeting of the House after any general election it appears that female members of Parliament will not constitute at least thirty per cent of the total membership of Parliament, then, and only then, the provisions of this section shall apply. […] For the purposes of this section, the House shall form itself into an electoral college and elect not more than four women on a regional basis to the House in accordance with the provisions of section 95(3).’ (Constitution 2005, Art. 86, para. 1, 2)