This is the first time that a woman has held the highest office in the world organisation of parliaments created in 1889. This is a clear reflection of the importance women have come to occupy in parliamentary life. To see that democracy is strengthened and that the ideals of the IPU, such as human rights, humanitarian law, gender parity, partnership between men and women, equal distribution of economic resources among the peoples of this world, and peace and development, are upheld. I was just drawing a parallel.
Democracy requires regular monitoring in view of the evolution of society.
It has to be more substantive and more representative to be an effective mode of governance. Democracy is not just a word. We have to put in extra effort and endeavour to make it more reflective. Democracy is not a stationary thing. It is movement.