Additional information about gender quotas

In the 2016 legislative elections, women were under-represented as candidates and as leaders of parties at national level. Only 21% of candidates were women and women were the top names of only 14.6% of the lists. Only one of the six competing parties had a woman as candidate for prime minister (African Union 2016).

During the 2012 municipal elections, a woman candidate ran in five of the country’s 22 municipal councils, compared to the three women candidates in the previous (2008) municipal elections.

In 2019, a Parity law was issued stating on the minimum representation of 40% of each of the sexes in the candidacy lists for the collegiate bodies of power, namely, the National Assembly, City Council, Municipal Assembly and other supra- or sub-municipal bodies.