MPS AGAINST VOTE FOR WOMAN CAMPAIGN

MBABANE – Are the current crop of Members of Parliament (MPs) afraid of losing out to women during the forthcoming elections?
This is because a majority of them have spoken out against the Vote for a Woman campaign.

Last week, during the various sittings of the House of Assembly portfolio committees, many of the legislators spoke against the campaign, stating that it was discriminatory and was giving an unfair advantage to women.

One of the MPs who spoke against the campaign was Maphalaleni MP Mabulala Maseko, who asked the Deputy Prime Minister (DPM), Paul Dlamini, why the focus was only on women.

“According to the 2017 Population Census report, men remain the minority population, they therefore need to be supported in election campaigns, why is the focus only on women?” submitted Maseko.
To this, the DPM said the focus was not on the national demographic but rather on the equitable and equal sharing of social, economic and political resources.

Dlamini said for the longest time women had not had the opportunity to actively hold political positions and have the economic advantages enjoyed by men.

The Vote for a Woman campaign intensified following the 2013 elections where only one woman, Mbabane East MP Esther Dlamini, was able to get a sit out of all the 55 Tinkhundla Centres.

On the same issue, Zombodze Emuva MP Titus Thwala said the law was being broken because the time for campaigning had not started.
He told the Minister of Information, Communication and Technology, Dumisani Ndlangamandla, that both the national broadcasters (TV and radio) were running the adverts of the ‘Khetsa Make’ (Vote for a woman) campaign already, which was unfair, because campaigning period had not been officially announced by the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC).

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