[list_indonesia] [ppiindia] Reforms would triple voters; poll shows backing for women
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Reforms would triple voters; poll shows backing for women
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Proposals to enfranchise Kuwaiti women and lower the
voting age to 18 would triple the number of voters, an independent think
tank said Saturday as an opinion poll showed 51 per cent of Kuwaitis back
women's rights.
Giving women the vote would increase the percentage of eligible voters from
the current 15 per cent to 38.9 per cent out of a native population of
956,000, Al Shall Economic Consultants said in its weekly report.
The number of Kuwaiti women over 21 years of age was 228,000 by the end of
last year, representing 23.9 per cent of the population. Women in this
category outnumber their male counterparts by 26,000.
According to the figures, Kuwaiti men over 21 years numbered 202,000 by the
end of last year but only 143,000 of them, or 15 per cent of the population,
are eligible voters because servicemen are not allowed to vote.
Al Shall said that if the voting age is lowered to 18, the number of
eligible voters will increase by an additional 6.2 per cent and total
eligible voters in the emirate will constitute 45 per cent of the
population.
The percentage will rise to slightly more than 50 per cent if servicemen in
the army and the police force are allowed to vote.
Meanwhile, a government-sponsored opinion poll conducted recently showed
that 51 per cent of Kuwaitis support full political rights for women and
only 29 per cent oppose them, Al Qabas newspaper reported.
The poll surveyed a random sample of 2,000 Kuwaitis - both men and women -
and was conducted in cooperation with Kuwait University. It showed that 71
per cent of the sample favour giving women only the right to vote, but not
to run for office. MPs agreed Monday to a government request to ask
parliament's interior and defence committee to speed up discussing a bill
that would grant women full political rights, as hundreds of women activists
demonstrated outside the house.
The bill, approved by the Cabinet last May, amends Article One of the 1962
electoral law which limits participation to male citizens and would bring it
into line with the constitution, which stipulates gender equality.
Sunday, March 13, 2005
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