AMMAN — The Hayat Center —
RASED’s
monitoring team has reported that by mid-day Wednesday a total of 571
candidates had registered to run for the position of mayor, all of them men.
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Comparatively, in the 2017 elections,
according to statistics, the number of candidates were 616, with six women
running for mayor.
As for female candidates for municipal council membership, only 22 percent of
the total number of those running for municipal council membership were women,
which is equal to the percentage of female candidates in the 2017 elections
despite the abolition of 355 local councils in accordance with the new
Local Administration Law.
As for women candidates for provincial
council membership, this year’s elections witnessed a 4 percent increase
compared to the 2017 elections, where the percentage of women running for
provincial councils reached 13 percent of the total number of male and female
candidates.
Zarqa governorate had the highest
percentage of women candidates out of the total number of candidates for all
positions at the governorate level, coming at 21 percent, followed by Balqa and
Mafraq governorates at 20 percent of the total number. The governorates of
Jerash, Maan, and Ajloun had the lowest percentage of women candidates with 14
percent.
Regarding the number of female
candidates running in governorates, Mafraq had the highest number of female
candidates with 152 female candidates, followed by Irbid with 148 female
candidates, followed by
Karak with 83 female candidates. The capital, Amman had
82 female candidates, and Aqaba had the lowest number of female candidates with
22 female candidates.
When the candidates were asked about
their partisan background, it was found that 91 percent of the respondents were
not affiliated with any party, while 5 percent respondents were affiliated.
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