One of the key reasons...

… why It's enough (Dosta je bill - DJB) is over census is in, if we spoke in chess terms, miniature that DJB played after the mistake of Democratic party (DS) and coalition of ex Serbian president Tadić, SDS, Jovanović from Liberal democratic party (LDP) and regional leader Čanak from LSV (also known as ČedaBorisČanak)…

Do you all remember the bags from the beginning of the second round of presidential campaign in 2012? Now, remember the shouts from DJB to DS in region Vojvodina and Belgrade municipalities Stari grad and Vračar about the list and the participation on elections. Similar? I think so.

Radulović from DJB does not speak the truth when he says that he was under media blockade. When it matters for the campaign, in the last 2 weeks – he was present in absolutely all media. If you don’t trust me just google radulovic ds listaand pay attention on the dates, and what appears. In that time DJB’s strongest attacks were towards DS.

Why?

Let’s go back on the researching… Most of them showed that there is over 20% of people that want to vote, but don’t know for who. With further analysis (by gender, education, where they live, employment, earnings…) you realize that more than half of those are potentially, in the way that it has been called until 2012, pro-european option. If we talk numbers, that is more than 350.000 people that wanted to vote on this elections, but they didn’t want to vote for the ruling parties or right-nacionalist parties. Basically, on the republic elections, they could choose between DS, ČBČ, DJB or abstinence.

Opportunity was used excellent by the DJB strategists. Their simple message box that was primarily focused against Vučić and SNS, that they were repeating for almost 18 months, made their electorate body solid, but also, it didn’t bring new voters. Now, they were provided with few more messages like: However, in Vojvodina, Demokratska stranka’s biggest fear is Dosta je bilo movement or They are fighting against us with all their power and by any means necessary, because they desperately want to save their undeserved official positions and salaries or We strongly condemn all the illegal games that are being used to obstruct elections process, games which Demokratska stranka used the most. We expected this kind of moves from the SNS, but not from the DS. Strong attacks like this, repeated for days, with inarticulate responses from DS and ČBČ coalition in the end gave positive result.

And for the end. Why is this formula 1 an illustration. On the races, often one driver isolates and nobody can catch up with him. Then, directors are looking for some other duels that can be interesting for the public. They usually finish just like this – at least one of the participants ends up race earlier.

Women's participation in elections in Jordan

As elections are approaching I have get more and more e-mails and messages from women who have sent their nomination for MP's and had been present on my seminars in Jordan, and who say that they are ready for the this race.

Fact that women have higher interest for Parliament now can be attributed to increase of their awareness of the rights and duties of women in modern societies.

I see this as the desire of women, as a neglected and I dare to say - often better educated and better part of this society, to contribute to the promotion and further development of fragile democracy of Middle East.

I am sure that in this process, lot of influence has had the Queen Rania herself as a symbol of the modern in Jordan.

At last elections in 2007 in this race have been involved 199 women for 6 'women' places from total 112 in Jordanian parliament.

Until this morning, according to my information, the 47 women announced their candidacy for the 12 'female' seats in Parliament which will count 120 members.

I hope that till 6th October, when the nomination procedure is completed, this number will be far exceed than the number of women candidates in 2007, and that it will exceed 300 as I have optimistically announced in July.

The biggest problem especially for women candidate will be a bad temporary election law that is in force in Jordan.

The problem is not in quota system. Those who know my political beliefs know that I am their great opponent.

I would not go further in explanation, but I think that the quota system in Jordan, because of the tradition and culture are mandatory.

The problem is, as I can see in the law, a proportional system that favors women in smaller constituencies. What will probably happen, that a woman with 200 votes become an MP, and the woman that have won more than 2,000 votes - not be.

Improvement of all election laws is a process that cannot be completed for the day, not even for a few months. Jordan is just at the beginning of this process.

That is why at women winners in  future elections, waits a lot of work, and the greatest is to convince society, especially women, that politics is not reserved only for men

If they succeed to accomplish it in this mandate of new Parliament, Jordanian democracy will make a huge step forward.