The Center for Women's Rights and Spektra expressed their dissatisfaction and concern with the fact that there will be only 17 women in the new convocation of the Parliament, and that the trend of decreasing percentage of women in the Parliament is current.
"According to the provisional results of the Parliamentary elections announced on Monday by the State Election Commission, in the future convocation of the Parliament of Montenegro, there will be only 17 women, or 21%. We obtained this information by looking at the positions held by women on the confirmed electoral lists that achieved parliamentary status .
For the sake of comparison, the number of women was 2016 or 19% in 23, and 2020 or 18% in 22. This is the lowest percentage of women since the introduction of the quota system, which stipulates that in a group of four candidates on the electoral list, one must be of the less represented sex.
After more than 10 years, the trends we are witnessing have failed even our most optimistic expectations. Even if certain candidates from the list are elected to the executive branch or resign from parliamentary positions, it is unlikely that the initial percentage of women on the parliamentary benches will change significantly," said the Center for Women's Rights.
"The Center for Women's Rights and Spektra, whose optimism in the "amount" of 25% of women on the parliamentary benches, was once again warned by reality, continue to monitor the processes and draw attention to all political actors who will negotiate the future government, to be aware of the consequences closed, exclusionary, uniform and "memorized" policies tailored to hetero-men and not to allow the mentioned topics, key to the development and well-being of Montenegrin society, to remain outside the radar of the future government. It is especially important not to continue the trend of additional marginalization and exclusion of women from the negotiations on the composition of the new Government and from the positions where decisions are made," they conclude in the announcement.
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