New Zealand: Labour proposes 'women only' rule

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2013-07-04 07:03

Article here. Excerpt:

'Labour is poised to introduce new party rules to ensure half of its elected MPs are women by 2017 and would allow individual electorates to run "women only" candidate selections.

The proposed rule changes, to be decided at the party's annual conference in November, would force the party's list selection committee to ensure caucus would be 45 per cent woman in 2014 and 50 per cent by 2017.

In putting the list together the moderating committee would also have to take into account the electorate MPs that were likely to be elected, to ensure that balance.

A local electorate committee would be able to request that the NZ Council decide "only women may nominate for the position of Labour candidate for their electorate".'

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