Additional information about gender quotas

In the Election of 2008, the ruling party "People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola"(MPLA), which won 81 per cent of the seats, had 77 women elected out of its 191 members of parliament (MPs).  The main opposition party, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), elected 4women out of its 16 MPs.

The MPLA adopted a 30 per cent quota for women candidates in the Law 22/10 in Political Parties. This has resulted in a huge increase in women's representation in the National Assembly (from 9.5 per cent in the 1992 elections, to 34 per cent in 2012).

In 2015, MPLA adopted a 40 per cent quota for women candidates in their statutes in Article 109 (Network Angola, 2015).