Wednesday 29 November 2006

Aww!


Not our time!
By GEOFFREY BEW
WOMEN should not be surprised that they did not win any seats in Saturday's elections, an equal rights activist said yesterday.
The secretary of the French Socialist Party in charge of women's rights and parity, Laurence Rossignol, said it is still too soon into Bahrain's fledgling democracy.
She admits she was disappointed in the results of voting in the elections, but says Bahrain is still leading the way in the region in that it elected the first woman MP in the Gulf (Latifa Al Gaoud).
"I think it is very difficult because it is only the second election that women can vote in," she said.
"It is very difficult to get the right to vote and then to be elected in such a short time.
"If we look at all the countries it is the same thing."
Ms Rossignol says laws should be introduced to make it easier for women in Bahrain to succeed in elections.



Don't be too hard on yourself Ms. Rossignol...its doesn't really matter that women haven't been elected to parliament...its a joke anyway....i'm sure their input on whether the use of mannequins should be banned would be very interesting but we have enough members of parliament pretending to have a say in what goes on....fledgling democracy? try non-existent...in any case...im happy that we don't have a democracy here if its gonna be anything like Iran or Egypt's "Democracy"....all that happened there was removal of a monarch and his replacement with an elected representative of the people (there's laughing in my head) accompanied by a loss of class and dignity amongst the populous...I think Bahrain can do without that for now...



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