{"id":78388,"date":"2019-05-27T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=78388"},"modified":"2019-05-27T03:06:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T01:06:10","slug":"number-of-female-mps-jumps-to-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/05\/27\/number-of-female-mps-jumps-to-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of female MPs jumps to 43"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/may-21-elections.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-78394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/may-21-elections.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Bethsaida Msowoya:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women have made inroads in Parliament in the tripartite elections, after their number increased from 32 in 2014 to 43 this year,<\/p>\n<p>According to 50:50-Campaign Management Agency Media Consultant Wisdom Chimgwede, unofficial results show that 43 female aspiring members of Parliament have made it to the august House.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe rate of women legislators is, therefore, likely to be at 31 percent this year, from 22 percent in 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe results demonstrate that we, as a nation, are beginning to appreciate the need of increasing the number of women in political leadership,\u201d<\/em> Chimgwede said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said the elected members of Parliament were from 18 districts across the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, a consortium of organisations that spearheaded the 50:50 campaign said in a statement on Friday that the Southern Region had registered more numbers of females elected, seconded by the Central Region while the Northern Region comes last.<\/p>\n<p>The calculations in the statement indicate that there are 24 representatives from the Southern Region, 15 from the Central and three from the North.<\/p>\n<p>The statement further indicates that about six districts will have no female representative in Parliament.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cChitipa, Mwanza, Neno, Karonga, Mzuzu City, Likoma remain male-dominated districts,\u201d<\/em> the statement reads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Mangochi is one of the districts basking in the sun of female glory, especially because Lilian Patel\u2019s journey in Parliament continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Bethsaida Msowoya: Women have made inroads in Parliament in the tripartite elections, after their number increased from 32 in 2014 to 43 this year, According to 50:50-Campaign Management Agency Media Consultant Wisdom Chimgwede, unofficial results show that 43 female aspiring members of Parliament have made it to the august House. \u201cThe rate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78400,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78388\/revisions\/78400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}