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Spotlighting Lebanese women MPs
20-5-2019
The candidate to the parliamentary elections in Tripoli, Yahya Mawlud, filed an appeal on May 13 before the Constitutional Council contesting the election of Future Movement MP Dima Jamali. The appeal included 11 reasons, notably, a televised admission of bribery and buying votes by Jamali, in addition to a direct interference by the government head in her electoral campaign, using public facilities and government departments for elections purposes and propaganda, exceeding the limit for electoral expenses and stuffing of ballot boxes. This appeal is the second filed against Jamali, recalling that the Constitutional Court invalidated her election on February 21 and ordered new parliamentary bi-elections in Tripoli after the appeal by Islamic Charity Association candidate, Taha Naji (https://bit.ly/2GnDoG3). Meanwhile, pictures of Future MP Rula Tabsh, having coffee during the day of Ramadan when offering condolences for the death of Patriarch Sfeir, have sparked wide controversy on social media. While opponents said Tabsh, being a representative of Sunnis in the Legislature, should have respected the sanctity of the holy month, others supported her personal freedom. On the other hand, the minister of state for economic empowerment of youth and women, Violette Safadi, said during an Iftar banquet at the Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli that the current crisis the country is facing is calamitous but not impossible to resolve. She stressed the need to approve the budget in order to revive the economic cycle. (Al Diyar, An Nahar, May 18, 19, 2019)
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