2. Review of local campaign and outcome post May EP elections Slovenia With financial support from the “Fundamental Rights and Citizenship” Programme of the European Union Athens, 4 June 2014

3. Women in Politics Group - WPG April 2013 Consists of 7 women: – 2 members from the Women’s Lobby of Slovenia – 3 members from our partner organisation Social Democrats – 2 members from the Institute for Social Creativity

4. Baseline Study Proportion of women in Slovenian politics on 1.5.2013

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6. Women in politics – Development strategy Campaign 2014 4 types of activities: Efforts for further amendments and changes in the election legislation. Pressure on political parties. Informing and raising awareness amongst the public about the necessity of a balanced women's and men's representation in the decision-making political bodies. Encouraging women from various political options to submit their candidature on different levels.

7. Activities before the creation of candidate lists Request the legislator to change or amend the Election of Slovenian Members to the European Parliament Act: – For the entire candidate list, from the 1st to the 8th place, the obligatory principle of candidates alternating by gender must be applied. – Special recommendation to classify female and male candidates by gender in the 1st place on candidate lists at individual elections.

8. Activities before the creation of candidate lists Informing political parties, women in politics and broader public on the project »More women in European politics. More women 2014«: – Organisation of the project presentation (November 2013), – Presentation of the project in the media (October – December 2013) – Invitation to political parties that their female representatives participate in the project (November 2013 – January 2014)

10. Activities before the creation of candidate lists Public letter / invitation to all the political parties which decided to participate in the European Parliament elections (March 2014): – to classify the candidates under the "zipper" system and – to choose the classification of female candidates in the 1st place.

11. Activities before the creation of candidate lists Concrete training and education of the women's group, potential female candidates in the European and local elections (January – May 2014): – familiarization with basic gender equality principles and a balanced representation of women and men in politics, – familiarization with the impacts of election systems on eligibility, overview of traps, – gender mainstreaming. mentorship and tutorship of the already established female politician

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13. Activities before the creation of candidate lists Preparation of tools to sensibilise the public, especially young people: – Setting up the Facebook site (October 2013) https://www.facebook.com/veczenskvpolitiki – Twitter Competition to design an online video on the topic of Gender Equality (April 2014).

14. Activities after the creation of candidate lists 1.Analysis of candidate lists 2.Information for broader public on the results of the candidate lists' analysis (press conference). 3.A call to female and male voters that they should decide for those candidate lists on which women are properly classified and to cast their preferential votes for female candidates. 4.Activities during the electoral campaign.

15. Analysis of candidate lists 16 candidate list 6 lists coming from 6 parliamentary political parties 10 lists coming from non-parliamentary parties or groups of citizens 13 lists with 8 candidates (= full lists) 2 lists with women on first place

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21. Outcome post May EP elections 8 members of the European Parliament from Slovenia were elected from 5 lists (4 parliamentary parties and 1 citizen list) 3 women and 5 men = 37,5% 3 „old“ MEP and 5 „new“ MEP 1 woman was elected with the preferential votes from the 2 nd place on the list the result regarding the gender balance was better than in 2009

22. Conclusion Project has achieved its purpose; – We reached young women (Facebook, competition for the on line video, Twitter). – We had an attractive and notable campaign which contributed to the promotion of gender equality. – We reached the media and to certain extend encouraged the public debate on gender equality in politics. – The zipper system was used more often than in the last elections. – Unfortunately still only two women were classified on the 1st place in the list but otherwise women were classified on the 2nd place which is an improvement from the elections in 2009.

23. Conclusion – The proportion of Slovenian female members to the European Parliament is 37,5%. – Project campaign contributed to the promotion of the preferential vote which helped to elect a female candidate.

24. …and – we learned so much new about women in politics, – we got familiar with political parties, – we were networking on so many levels and most important – we had fun and – made some new friendship.

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