Maaytah: Our goal is to empower women in political and partisan work 

24 October 2022 
The Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Independent Commission forElections, Eng. Musa Al-Maaytah, stressed that Jordan has completed many laws, which have enhanced  women's participation in  political life in general and elections in particular.

This came during his sponsorship of the first phase of the Electoral Violence Against Women Observatory project, and the  National Network for Women Leaders "Alia", which was launched by the Karak Castle Center for Consultation and Training in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation  - Jordan, where it is held for two consecutive days.

Al-Maaytah focused on the content of community culture and its impact on women's political participation, calling at the same time to overcome all obstacles that hinder women'sparticipation in public life, and prevent their access to decision-making positions, noting that the Commission recently established a Women's Affairs Unit concerned with empowering women, and qualifying them for political and partisan work. 

Al-Maaytah also explained the most prominent developments in the  electoral and party laws and how they contributed   to empowering women and  youth and enhancing their political participation, as he showed the recent constitutional amendments and developments in the parties and elections laws, indicating the increase in the number of seats allocated to women (quota) in local lists, which reached (18) seats, from (15).

Maaytah also added that the national constituency consists of (41) seats allocated to parties from the total number of seats in the House of Representatives, and by up to 30 percent in the next House of Representatives (the twentieth), provided that this percentage rises to 50 percent in the twenty-first House of Representatives, and then settles on 65 percentin the twenty-second House of Representatives