by Nadira Gunatilleke

The total number of members in the Local Government bodies are 3,720 and 12 percent of the total number of candidates was contested the 2002 Local Government Elections were women. But only 2.1 per cent of them were elected. Now the Women's Affairs Ministry has made arrangements to increase women's representation in politics by 25 percent within next three years, Women's Affairs Minister Amara Piyaseeli Ratnayake said.
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