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cpsutcliffe t1_ire3a6q wrote

Title should say since 2016, as none were elected in 2020.

The only female representative, Safa Al Hashem lost her seat in 2020 and from the 29 female candidates, none were elected. Leaving the parliament without a female MP for the first time since 2012.

This year, of the 305 candidates, only 22 were women and it looks like 2 were elected, Alia al-Khaled and former Minister Jenan Boushehri.

It doesn't look very representative but progress is progress.

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r0botdevil t1_irfdp2d wrote

Okay that makes this make a lot more sense.

I was gonna say the United States hasn't elected a woman to the Senate since 2018 so what's the big deal? But it's totally different if they haven't had a sitting female MP since 2020.

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