Open AccessJordan: Women and Politics
Author(s) -
Rana Husseini
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.542
Subject(s) - politics , political science , lower house , outcome (game theory) , general election , law , public administration , economics , parliament , mathematical economics
With an expected call for parliamentary elections this fall, former women candidates look with mixed expectations at their chances of winning seats in the 80-member Lower Houst. "I am planning to run for the upcoming elections nomatter what the outcome of the draft elections law was," stated Toujan Faisal, who in 1993 was the first and only woman to make it to the House.