Political Parties in Africa: Challenges for Sustained Multiparty
Political Parties in Africa: Challenges for Sustained Multiparty
Political Parties in Africa: Challenges for Sustained Multiparty
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Country Percentage<br />
of women <strong>in</strong><br />
legislature<br />
<strong>Political</strong> <strong>Parties</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Africa</strong>: <strong>Challenges</strong> <strong>for</strong> Susta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>Multiparty</strong> Democracy<br />
Table 5.4: Party-mandated parliamentary quotas <strong>for</strong> women <strong>in</strong><br />
<strong>Africa</strong>n countries<br />
Party mandate of<br />
quota <strong>for</strong> women<br />
Botswana 7.0 Botswana<br />
Congress Party<br />
Botswana<br />
National Front<br />
Burk<strong>in</strong>a Faso 11.7 Alliance pour la<br />
Démocratie et la<br />
Fédération<br />
Congrès pour la<br />
Démocratie et le<br />
Progrès<br />
Cameroon 8.9 Cameroon<br />
People’s Free<br />
Movement<br />
Social Democratic<br />
Front<br />
Côte d’Ivoire 8.5 Front Populaire de<br />
Côte d’Ivoire<br />
Equatorial<br />
Gu<strong>in</strong>ea<br />
18.0 Convergencia para<br />
la Democracia<br />
Social<br />
Ethiopia 7.7 Ethiopia People’s<br />
Revolutionary Free<br />
Front<br />
Mali 10.2 Alliance <strong>for</strong><br />
Democracy<br />
Mozambique 30.0 Frente de<br />
Libertaçâo de<br />
Moçambique<br />
(Frelimo)<br />
Niger 11.5 National<br />
Movement <strong>for</strong><br />
Society and<br />
Development<br />
Senegal 19.2 Senegalese Free<br />
Party<br />
Parti Socialiste<br />
South <strong>Africa</strong> 32.8 <strong>Africa</strong>n National<br />
Congress<br />
Tunisia 22.8 Democratic<br />
Constitutional<br />
Rally<br />
Quota Share of<br />
seats held by<br />
party<br />
Year quota<br />
<strong>in</strong>troduced<br />
Source: Tripp, Aili Mari, ‘Legislative Quotas <strong>for</strong> Women’, <strong>in</strong> Mohamed Salih (ed.), <strong>Africa</strong>n Parliaments<br />
Between Government and Governance (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), p. 52.<br />
30%<br />
30%<br />
25%<br />
25%<br />
25–30%<br />
25%<br />
21%<br />
2%<br />
13%<br />
50%<br />
83%<br />
12%<br />
30% 43%<br />
5.8%<br />
1999<br />
1999<br />
2002<br />
1996<br />
30% 85% 2004<br />
30% 40%<br />
30% 49% 1994<br />
5 seats 42%<br />
33%<br />
25%<br />
74%<br />
8%<br />
2001<br />
33% 70% 1994<br />
20% 80%