High stakes vote for Tunisian women
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TUNIS — Tunisian street vendor Ahlem Memi, 23, says not voting in elections Sunday would be shameful in a country mulling the future role of its women after decades as the vanguard of gender parity in the Muslim world.
The quintessential image of the modern, young Tunisian woman, Memi has a pair of fashionably large sunglasses perched cheekily on top of her head and sprints around energetically in jeans and a chic top while chatting to customers.
“Of course I will vote! It is a duty ... for a better life for all Tunisians, especially women,” she told AFP on a Tunis main street where veiled women are a rarity.
Between peddling tourist trinkets from a stall, Memi says she is weighing up three parties, “there are too many,” but knows one thing for sure: “Ennahda, never” — referring to the Islamist party polled to win the biggest bloc of votes..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111024com5.html
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talagang dapat kayong bumoto at pag hindi eh baka maging huling halalan n'yo yan na pwedeng bumoto ang babae. siguraduhing walang dayaan!
"“Of course I will vote! It is a duty ... for a better life for all Tunisians, especially women,” she told AFP on a Tunis main street where veiled women are a rarity....
“We fear they will introduce polygamy, oblige us to veil ourselves. Perhaps the Islamists will consign women to the home. They might close the cinemas ...”"
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