Luanda - The National Assembly (parliament) Speaker, Carolina Cerqueira, was elected this Tuesday, in Geneva, Switzerland, member of the Preparatory Committee for the 6th World Conference of Women Speakers of Parliament to take place between July and August 2025.
The decision came from a meeting of the Executive Committee that approved the proposals of the regional groups of the Interparlamenter Union (IPU), which took place in Geneva (Switzerland) on the sidelines of the organization's 148th General Assembly.
The Committee is chaired by the IPU's president and also leader of the Tanzanian parliament, Tulia Acson.
A representative of the IPU Women's Committee and a representative of the Youth Forum are also part of the Committee.
At African level, representatives from Angola, Algeria, Côte D'Ivoire and Nigeria were elected, who are represented by the heads of their parliaments.
It should be noted that at a global level, the number of women taking on the leadership of their countries' parliaments is increasing.
Carolina Cerqueira is the first woman to assume the Angola National Assembly Chair, having been elected in September 2022.
The summit is a sharing experiences space among women leaders from around the world and analyzing advances and challenges to strengthening equity, participation and opportunities for women globally.
Also called Women Political Leaders (WPL) is a global network of women political leaders at an international level, including the European Parliament, which currently has around nine thousand members.
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