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All major political parties have failed to meet the 2020 deadline of reserving at least 33 percent of all committee positions at local and national levels for women while the Election Commission is doing nothing about it.
The commission is still in the dark as to which parties have or haven t met the deadline, unaware of the percentage of female representation in central committees of all the political parties not to mention those at the grassroots level.
Reserving at least 33 percent of all committee positions, including that of the central committee, for women by 2020 is a pre-requisite for any political party s registration with the Election Commission in line with the Representation of the People Order, 1972.