Falaha Braizat .. The first woman to compete for the position of Captain of Jordanian Journalists

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When the journalist Falah Braizat decided to fight the battle of the Jordanian Journalists Syndicate and compete for the position of captain, as the first female journalist to run for this position, she knew that the road was difficult and difficult and required toughness and strength.

Berizat, who was born in a cave on the outskirts of the village "Delilah Al-Hamayda" in the countryside of Madaba, south of the capital Amman, tells Al-Jazeera Net that her environment and the harshness of her childhood gave her the ability to withstand and confront until the end.

And she added, "My childhood was not blessed to the extent that relieved me from the hassle of searching for opportunities for development and learning. Rather, it puts me in front of some tests that were harsh, and I had a duty to search for logical solutions and adapt to challenges as a daughter who lived in a village, relying on myself and on the freedom and simplicity of life. In the verse. "

Falah started her electoral career by taking a bold decision that represented her resignation from her work in the Jordanian News Agency and announcing that she would not accept any position if she wins in order to devote himself to her union work.

In front of this decision unprecedented in the history of the union, we see a new scene filled with many questions about the difficulty of competition and the extent of the colleagues accepting the presence of a woman in the captain's seat, despite the clear and encouraging support for her to complete her career.

How was the idea of ​​running for elections born at a peasant
"A morning conversation with a female colleague at the doorsteps of the Press Syndicate more than five years ago still resonates in my ear whenever the time for the Press Syndicate elections comes," Falah said.

She noted that he talked about the door to the big questions about the absence of women from the mere idea of ​​running for the Syndicate of Journalists Syndicate, for decades, in which women were satisfied with their share of membership despite the availability of laws for them to exercise this right.

"The truth was I had to settle with a file going through the experience of running for the location of the Captain, to break the" taboos "with female colleagues, on the one hand, and for my firm belief in my ability to present a different model in its reliance on participatory and values, away from the subjectivity and exclusion that overshadowed our overall union scene," according to it.

A better union tomorrow

But why now, knowing that she is facing the current captains Rakan Al-Saeidah and former Tariq Al-Momani? Falaha says she is running in elections armed with a declared trade union bloc, and a professional reform program that qualifies her to fight the battle until the end.

She explains, "I carry a trade union program that we adhere to before the General Assembly, away from the traditional frameworks that have continued to control the members’ options and electoral papers. Whenever (the electoral climate) is heated, a conversation is being conducted among the General Assembly about the reasons for the weak "contractual relationship" between the union and its members, after the absence of Almost absolute on the issues of colleagues and their aspirations for a better union tomorrow.

Embodying the responsibility of the fourth authority
The truth is that running the first female journalist as president of the Jordanian Journalists Syndicate stirred the stagnant water and heated the battle more, especially through social media and in newspapers and websites. And I found that there are some of the first pioneering journalists as well as the younger generation, and I found that there is someone who is stuck in the past and believes that she does not have the opportunity because she is a "woman".

There are colleagues and colleagues from all age groups who chose to witness the birth of the first union project, in terms of a woman nominating for the location of the Captain and in terms of building a declared programmatic block, diagnosing organizational, living and developmental concerns, and setting up a plan to address them, with tools that launch the profession picture from dependency to the economic, administrative and other sectors, and payment It is about working independently and professionally.

In addition to developing and developing professional standards that elevate the professional performance of members and embody the responsibility of the press as a fourth authority, Falah told Al Jazeera Net.

An election campaign based on an integrative approach
She is now continuing her campaign, as Fala Braizat, who graduated from the Faculty of Information at Yarmouk University, toured the sites of journalists in the nearby and remote governorates, and interviewed everyone.

On these tours, Falah says, "For me, the trade-off is not subject to the" trade union geography "equation as it sticks to all moving minds, giving hands and loving hearts, but I wanted to start promoting the idea of ​​the new bloc by proposing it and seeing it with the participation of colleagues in the governorates, to ensure that the union rule Which I believe in insisting on the consolidation of an integrative approach in which the provinces will be next to the center (the capital, Amman), without excluding or marginalizing either of them.

She concluded by saying, "As for the effect of being a woman on my chances of success, it is too early to answer it, as only the funds are the ones she says, and we must improve listening to her words."