Gender quotas are seen as necessary, even though MP women challenged

This is being assessed as a success of female MPs, but that gender quotas are being seen as necessary to be used for certain election parties as well.

The next 11 deputies of the Vetevendosje Movement have managed to get votes to be part of the Assembly without having to quota gender. Meanwhile, by the Democratic League of Kosovo, only two women deputies from a total of 9, have needed quotas.

Gender quotas have required more women MPs from the Democratic Party of Kosovo and the AAK- The PSD, where out of 8 deputies have been elected by the PDK, 6 have been chosen through quota, while from the AAK- The PSD, out of five deputies, 4 were selected through quota.

The October 6th elections marked the largest number of women who managed to become part of the Assembly without the need for gender quotas, but that political and expert field analysts estimate that the drop of the quota should not happen for certain parties of the election.

The executive director of the Group for Political and Juridical Studies, Arbeen Loja, says of Kosva pris, that this legislature will have a more meritier representation of women in the Kosovo Assembly, for the fact that a large number of women have secured seats in the Assembly without the need of gender quota.

Although it is a success to say that 26 women out of 39 will be able to win without gender, the latter finds it necessary to be used in some of the choices.

According to her, all these reasons provide a mirror that Kosovo has not yet achieved among the political parties that women have the right place both in party structures and in Kosovo institutions.

Even political analyst Rasim Alija says of Kosova Prees, that despite the increasing of MP women who have managed to obtain the mandate without the need for gender quotas, the latter should continue to be used until political parties include more women on election lists.

Copying the mandate of 26 female deputies without needing gender quotas, Eugen Cakoli from KDI sees it as an indicator of voter emancipation. However, even Calcoll says that the quota must continue to be used.

According to him, lifting the quota under these circumstances under which Kosovo is in question would be going back, as the minimum quota for representation of 30 per cent of women in the country has not yet been reached without quotas.

We remember that political parties have been criticised that on electoral lists for the 6 October elections, they had not observed the Gender Equality Law for equal representation of 50 per cent. All the political subjects that have competed in the elections had only met the 30 per cent quota of women's representation on candidate lists for deputies, but not the Law on Gender Equality, which requires representation of 50 per cent for each gender.

Political parties have not respected this law and there have been no more than 34 women involved on their lists. On the list of the Democratic League of Kosovo, which led Prime Minister Vjosa Osmani's candidate, were only 33 women.

Even the Democratic Party of Kosovo on its list of MP candidates has had 33 women, and that's how much the coalition has been in between the Initiative - AKR-PD. Meanwhile, the Vetevendosje Movement and the AAK- The PSD on their lists had 34 women.