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MPs seek signatures on gender rule

Some 11 MPs have launched a campaign for a million signatures to push for amendment of the Constitution to effect the one-third gender rule that will see 136 elective positions set aside for women.

Ndhiwa MP Agostino Neto said parliamentary initiatives had failed to effect the two-third gender rule that requires women to occupy at least a third of all the elective posts.

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