{"id":41304,"date":"2018-11-23T22:54:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T22:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=41304"},"modified":"2019-02-22T09:50:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:50:53","slug":"election-lists-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/election-lists-6\/","title":{"rendered":"33.8% of candidates in territorial lists are women (23.11.2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/inf-19-small.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>11 political forces participating in extraordinary parliamentary elections have nominated 1326 candidates in territorial or so-called rating lists in 13 constituencies, 449 of which are women or 33.8%. This is a little progress compared with the previous parliamentary elections in 2017 when the number of women represented by territorial lists was 30.8%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In general, the greatest number of candidates by territorial lists was represented by party &#8220;Sasna Tsrer&#8221; (155), followed by the Prosperous Armenia Party (154), the &#8220;My Step&#8221; (149) and the &#8220;Bright Armenia&#8221; (142). The Republican Party is the only one that all candidates included in the national list are also nominated by a rating system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As regards women&#8217;s participation, the National Progress Party represents the largest number of women in both national lists and territorial lists. In its territorial lists, 35 out of 65 candidates or 53.8% are women.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Comparing the territorial lists of some parties to the 2017 and 2018 parliamentary elections, we can state that the RPA has ensured representation of &nbsp;women candidates with 10.9% growth, the Rule of Law party, which was participating previously as &nbsp;&#8220;Renaissance&#8221;, about 9% Growth, the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), the Tsarukyan bloc in the previous elections, has secured 2.5% growth in women&#8217;s representation, and the ARF Dashnaktsutyun &#8211; &nbsp;3.3% growth.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">11 political forces participating in extraordinary parliamentary elections have nominated 1326 candidates in territorial or so-called rating lists in 13 constituencies, 449 of which are women or 33.8%. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,141,99,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-119","category----2012","category-99","category-women-and-elections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41304"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42296,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41304\/revisions\/42296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}