About 70 current and former female deputies return to run in the fall elections, including a well-kn

[size=52]About 70 current and former female deputies return to run in the fall elections, including a well-known minister and actress[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]More than half of the female deputies in the current parliament decided not to run in the early legislative elections scheduled for next fall (October 10).
The election commission excluded more than 20 female candidates for reasons related to belonging to the "Baathist" and committing crimes.[/size]
[size=45]Absent from the race were women, candidates who won the first ten places in the last elections with the number of votes, and some of them outperformed men.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, 43 current and 25 former female deputies returned to the competition, and representatives, conservative sisters and daughters of well-known political leaders also ran for candidates.[/size]
[size=45]The 14 female candidates, including a minister in the current government, are also competing for quota seats in 5 governorates.[/size]
[size=45]There are 3,552 candidates running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, including 982 female candidates and 162 of them individually.[/size]
[size=45]The 2018 elections witnessed the participation of 1983 female candidates, including 8 women heading electoral lists and alliances.[/size]
[size=45]In the 2018 elections, women won 84 out of a total of 329 seats in the House of Representatives.[/size]
[size=45]big cities[/size]
[size=45]In Baghdad, 285 out of 901 female candidates are competing to fill 71 seats, including two seats designated for the “quota” of the components.[/size]
[size=45]Six current female deputies are returning to candidacy, and they are: Representative Alia Nassif from the State of Law coalition, Hana Turki from the Independent Bloc, Wahda al-Jumaili from Taqaddum, and Iktawa al-Hasnawi from the Al-Fateh coalition.[/size]
[size=45]In addition to the deputy, Intisam Al-Gharawi from the Alliance of State Forces, and Aisha Al-Masari from the Azm Alliance led by Khamis Al-Khanjar.[/size]
[size=45]Former MP Sabah Al-Tamimi was nominated with her brother, Arkan Al-Tamimi, in the individual nominations, Etab Al-Douri for Azm, Najat Al-Obaidi for the Youth Movement for Change, and Nada Al-Jubouri for progress.[/size]
[size=45]Among the new nominations, Sarah Allawi, the daughter of the leader of the National Coalition and former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who announced his boycott of the elections last month, and actress Asia Kamal from the Awareness Movement led by the dissident leader of the Wisdom Movement, Salah al-Arbawi, will be nominated.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the most prominent absentee from the electoral race in Baghdad is MP Majida Al-Tamimi, who won a seat outside the "women's quota" after collecting more than 55,000 votes.[/size]
[size=45]As for Nineveh, 126 women out of 422 candidates are running for 34 seats, including 5 female deputies in the current parliament.[/size]
[size=45]The female representatives are: Ikhlas al-Dulaimi from the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Basma Bassim from Taqad, Huda Jarallah from Azm, Intisar al-Jubouri from Taqaddam, and Layal Muhammad from al-Fath.[/size]
[size=45]As for the previous female candidates, they are: Former MP Jamila Al-Obaidi, who, years ago, stirred up public opinion by talking about encouraging men to marry more than once, and this time she is running in the individual nominations.[/size]
[size=45]In addition to the former MP, Noura Al-Bajari from the Progress Alliance, and Nahla Al-Habbabi among the individual nominations.[/size]
[size=45]In Basra, there are 66 female candidates among 243 candidates for 26 seats. Three female deputies returned to the competition: Intisar Hassan from Al-Fateh, Revolution Jawad from the National Contract Alliance headed by the head of the Popular Mobilization Committee, Faleh Al-Fayyad.[/size]
[size=45]In addition to the deputy, Zahra Al-Bajari, who won from the Wisdom Movement, and this time she is running as a candidate within the national movement of my country, in which she held the position of Secretary-General.[/size]
[size=45]The former representative of the State of Law coalition, Awatef Turki, also returned to the competition, and this time she is running for the Professionals Party for Reconstruction, headed by the former Minister of Reconstruction, Muhammad Al-Daraji.[/size]
[size=45]Absence of the loudest voices[/size]
[size=45]In Anbar, 49 women are running among 166 candidates to fill 15 seats, and five female deputies in the current parliament have returned to the province.[/size]
[size=45]The returning female deputies are: Samia Ghallab, Ibtisam Darb, Nahla Jabbar and Nahla Hamad, from Taqaddam, and Ghada Nouri, from the National Contract Alliance.[/size]
[size=45]As for the former female deputies, Iman Moussa returns to competing within the individual nominations, and a rosy meeting within the Iraqi national project.[/size]
[size=45]In Dhi Qar, 36 female candidates out of 136 candidates compete to fill 19 seats in the governorates, while two female deputies returned to the electoral race.[/size]
[size=45]Representative Zainab Waheed decided to enter the competition within the State Forces Alliance, and Ola Odeh was a candidate for the Al-Fateh Alliance.[/size]
[size=45]Also, the former MP Amal Attia returned to run for the Al-Fateh Alliance, and Nawal Gomaa, the former MP, was also among the individual nominations.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the resigned MP Haifa Al-Amin, who received the highest votes among women in the governorate in the 2018 elections, who received more than 12,000 votes, was absent from the competition.[/size]
[size=45]Amin resigned with her colleague, Raed Fahmy in the Communist Party within the Sairoon Alliance, following the events of the October demonstrations in 2019.[/size]
[size=45]The return of former deputies[/size]
[size=45]In Maysan, 18 female candidates out of 61 candidates are competing to fill 10 seats, including two female deputies: Siham Shannoun from the National Approach Alliance, and Dalal Al-Gharawi from the Iraqi Al-Wafa Movement.[/size]
[size=45]In Salah al-Din, the number of female candidates in the governorate increases to 61 among 194 candidates to fill 12 seats, 3 of which are for women.[/size]
[size=45]The competition lists show the return of MP Kafaa Farhan from the National Contract Alliance, Manar Al-Shadidi from Al-Fateh, and Shamael Al-Obaidi from the Azm Alliance.[/size]
[size=45]Also, former MPs Amal Marei, Suhad Al-Obaidi, Hana Asghar and Ashwaq Al-Jubouri are once again competing.[/size]
[size=45]In Diyala, 4 seats were allocated for women out of 14, with 52 women competing for them out of 164 candidates across the province.[/size]
[size=45]Representatives Iqbal Adnan from the Progress Alliance, and Nahida Al-Dayni from the Azm Alliance, will return to compete in the province.[/size]
[size=45]In Najaf and Karbala[/size]
[size=45]In Najaf, 30 women are applying to fill 3 seats reserved for women in the province, among 103 candidates to fill 12 seats across Najaf.[/size]
[size=45]One female MP in Najaf, Suad Jabbar from the National Accord Party, and Al-Yassin, a former MP from the Sadrist bloc, will return to candidacy.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, 35 women are competing among 113 candidates in Karbala to fill 11 seats, 3 of which are reserved for women.[/size]
[size=45]The lists of competition show the nomination of MP Laila Falih among the individual nominations, Manal Hamid, the Victory Coalition, along with former MP Ibtisam Al-Hilali for the National Product of the former MP and former Wasit Governor Ghazanfar Al-Batekh, a movement close to the Al-Fateh Alliance.[/size]
[size=45]Transfer from Baghdad to Kirkuk[/size]
[size=45]In Kirkuk, there are 3 seats reserved for women, for which 35 female candidates are competing among 136 candidates in the province to fill 12 seats.[/size]
[size=45]This time, Ala Talabani, who won last year from the Baghdad Alliance in the capital, returns to run in Kirkuk with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which is running in the elections under the name of the Kurdistan Alliance, and Khadija Ali among the individual nominations.[/size]
[size=45]It also goes back to the rivalry of former deputy Zala Naftaji, who is running in the Iraqi Turkmen United Front.[/size]
[size=45]In addition, 39 female candidates competed in Babel to fill 4 seats for women out of 17, while the number of candidates in the governorate reached 157.[/size]
[size=45]Babylon and Wasit[/size]
[size=45]Only one female MP will return to compete in Babylon, and she is Manal Al-Maslmawi within the individual nominations, while former MP Hanan Al-Fatlawi, head of the Irada movement, will return to run for office, but with her previous bloc, State of Law.[/size]
[size=45]In Wasit, there are 28 female candidates out of 123 candidates competing to fill 10 seats, 3 of which are reserved for women.[/size]
[size=45]And back to the competition in the province, MP Iqbal Abdul-Hussein from the Tasmeem alliance led by the governor of Basra, Asaad Al-Eidani, and Enas Naji from the Sadrist bloc.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, only one former female MP will return to the competition, which is MP Intisar Al-Gharabi from the Sadrist bloc as well.[/size]
[size=45]one vice[/size]
[size=45]In Muthanna, 16 out of 57 female candidates compete to fill 7 seats, two of which are reserved for women.[/size]
[size=45]One female deputy, Ashwaq Karim, from the Al-Fateh Alliance, is running, while two former female MPs competed: Khadija Wadi and Khawla Al-Ziyadi, sister of the current governor of Muthanna, Ahmed Manfi Al-Ziyadi.[/size]
[size=45]Meanwhile, 24 female candidates in Diwaniyah are competing to fill 3 seats reserved for women out of 11 seats for which 105 candidates are competing across the governorate.[/size]
[size=45]The two female representatives, Siham Moussa from the Al-Fateh Alliance, and Duha Reda, were nominated among the individual nominations, while no previous female deputy was registered to compete.[/size]
[size=45]Kurdistan cities[/size]
[size=45]In Erbil, there are 18 female candidates out of 52 candidates competing for 15 seats in the province, including 4 seats reserved for women.[/size]
[size=45]Erbil did not record the return of any current or former female MP to run again, while MP Hadar Zubair, who ranked sixth among the top 10 women who obtained votes in the 2018 elections and occupied seats outside the quota, was absent from the competition.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, two female deputies returned in Sulaymaniyah, Yusra Rajab among the individual nominations, and Sarwa Abdul Wahed within the New Generation Movement, which had won in 2018 for Erbil.[/size]
[size=45]Also, former MP Ashwaq al-Jaf returns to the competition within the Kurdistan Democratic Party.[/size]
[size=45]There are 23 female candidates in Sulaymaniyah to fill 5 of the 18 seats allocated to the province, while the total number of candidates has reached 63.[/size]
[size=45]In Dohuk, only one female deputy, the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Parliament, Vian Sabri, returned to candidacy within the same party, while the number of female candidates reached 18.[/size]
[size=45]3 out of 11 seats are allocated to Dohuk, while the total number of candidates in the governorate is 30.[/size]
[size=45]Component seats[/size]
[size=45]As for the nine seats allocated to the “quota” of components in Baghdad, Erbil, Nineveh, Dohuk, Kirkuk and Wasit, 14 women out of 66 candidates are running for them.[/size]
[size=45]The most prominent contender for the Christian seat is the current Minister of Immigration, Evan Yaqoub, from the Babylon Movement, affiliated with Rayan Al-Kildani, a leader in the Popular Mobilization.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the Electoral Commission expelled 23 women out of 284 deportees, for reasons that some of them were included in the Accountability and Justice Law, the issuance of judicial rulings, or a lack of papers required to run for candidacy, such as what happened with Representative Lubna Rahim from Babylon within the Wisdom Movement.[/size]
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