The purpose of “Legal Assistance to Women Candidates in the October 2018 General Elections” is the protection of women’s rights in the politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as an increase in legal protection in case of violation of their electoral rights, before and after elections. Director of the Grahovo Citizens’ Association, Ms. Danka Zelić, said they gathered together to see if and how many candidates are satisfied with the results in this year’s elections. She mentioned that this association organized a similar forum in Banja Luka before the elections. It was then that the project of legal aid to women candidates in the elections under the slogan “Remove the False Face of Politics” was promoted. The Forum presented the analysis titled “Where are the women in the elections in BiH” which showed that women did not succeed in improving the situation with assignment of mandates when compared to the 2014 General Elections. “We came to a conclusion that political parties have not yet recognized women as equal in that respect,” saidZelić…
