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Irish political parties must meet female MP quotas or risk losing state funding

Mastodon - Thu, 2012-08-02 17:17

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Bill passed in the Irish government this weekend has historically changed the way women will be represented in the Dáil*.

The Electoral Amendment (Political Funding) Bill 2011 rules that state funding of political parties will be halved unless 30% of parliamentary candidates at the next election are female.

The Bill was triggered by only 15.1% of Irish parliamentarians being women – a figure that is only slightly less than the 22% of women sitting in the House of Commons.'

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*Dáil Éireann