Quotas Inside Party Lists
- Iraq held its first post-Saddam parliamentary elections in January 2005 under an electoral law providing for compulsory integration of women on the candidates lists, like several European countries with a proportional electoral system.
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“Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.”
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