Many women have opted to go for the County Woman Rep seat which gets them into the National Assembly. The number is less than the 117 minimum MPs required to meet the two-thirds gender threshold in the 349-member National Assembly. Musalia Mudavadi’s Amani National Congress is the next in the tally with five women competing with men for the National Assembly ticket. In Kalonzo Musyoka’s Wiper Democratic Movement Party, only two women signed up to compete with men in party primaries for the parliamentary seat. But a look at the party lists shows that out of all ten parties, only two have women seeking the gubernatorial seat in the party primaries.

Source: Standard Digital April 22, 2017 19:18 UTC