Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor, ahead of the 2020 mid-term senatorial election in which 15 of the 30 senators are seeking reelection, has challenged her women colleagues to begin preparation now in order to make themselves politically relevant to the constituents if the Legislature can have a good number of them.
VP Taylor, Liberia's first female Vice President and second to former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to occupy such a senior elected position in government, is an advocate for gender equity in political participation. Prior to her ascendancy to the VP position, she served as Senator of Bong County before the 2017 presidential election and went ahead to carve a resolution calling for 30 political seats exclusively for women.
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