Argentina in shock as Vice President survives assassination attempt, and other stories

#WomenLead (Issue 114): Your weekly round-up on women in politics

Hello, and welcome to Issue 114! 

In this week’s edition, we bring you updates from India, Kuwait and Portugal, and the spotlight is on Argentina where the country’s Vice President, and arguably one of its most popular politicians, miraculously and fortunately, had a narrow escape from death.

In case you missed last week’s edition, you can read it here. 

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Quick Updates

😟 ANOTHER DISMAL SHOW? Kuwait will hold Parliamentary elections at the end of this month. The first day of candidate registration saw 115 people sign up – only eight of whom are women. In the last polls in 2020, no woman had been elected even as 29 had contested. With those kinds of numbers among contestants, here’s hoping against hope that this poll does not throw up yet another “parliamanel”.