Partnership Center for Development & Democracy (PCDD)

PCDD was honored to attend the launch of LADE’s final report on the 2025 Municipal and Mukhtar Elections, supported by UNDP—a compelling gender analysis of Lebanon’s electoral landscape.

Key Findings:
• Women’s voting patterns are often shaped more by familial and partisan pressures than by independent choice.
• Structural barriers—ranging from mobility constraints to limited access to electoral education—continue to undermine women’s political agency.
• Public support for female candidates is growing, yet legal and social systems persist in treating women as second-class citizens.
• The lack of a cohesive national strategy leaves many women exposed to biased or incomplete information, deepening reliance on family and party networks.

PCDD reaffirms its commitment to inclusive, rights-based elections and to empowering women as agents of change—through meaningful gender quotas, not symbolic representation.