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[Angry Bird Rios]

Horrors! What if they vote to allow themselves to drive?

King Abdullah: Saudi Arabia women can vote, hold elected office in 2015

By Michael Sheridan
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, September 25th 2011, 9:49 AM

Woman will soon be able to vote in Saudi Arabia, but they still can't drive a car.

Saudi King Abdullah announced on Sunday that not only will females be allowed to vote in municipal elections in that Middle Eastern country, they will also be allowed to hold office, according to news outlets in the region.

"Because we refuse to marginalize women in society in all roles that comply with Shariah, we have decided, after deliberation with our senior ulema and others to involve women in the Shoura Council as members in line with the Shariah regulations, starting from the next term," the king said in an address to the Shoura Council in Riyadh, according to the English-language Arab News.

"Secondly women have the right to run for municipal council membership. She also has the right to vote within Shariah regulations," Abdullah said, Arab News reported.

Activists in Saudi Arabia have long called for greater rights for women, who are barred from traveling, working or having medical operations without the permission of a male relative.

These surprise changes, however, won't apply to Thursday's municipal elections. The new rules for women will not take effect until 2015.

Saudi Arabia held its first-ever municipal elections in 2005.

[Zackback]

The answer to your question is easy.
The same thing would happen there as it does in the USA.
The majority vote for something only to have it nullified by some looney judge.

[Steelrails]

I totally support the right to vote for women in all countries.

However in my country the fact remains, and this remains a stain forever, the first thing women did with the vote was to ban alcohol. And then, demonstrating their capacity to learn from mistakes, they went out and banned drugs.

Now men have done things just as boneheaded, if not moreso with the vote, but whenever I hear people carry on how women will bring better insight to politics and government I just roll my eyes and site that bit of history.

[Zackback]

Count me in as one who believes women should NOT be allowed to vote.

[Angry Bird Rios]

First you say:

[whatisinmyhead]

70 cents to my dollar is an outrage.

[Steelrails]

[NovaKart]

I asked one of my Saudi friends about this. He said his wife didn't really care because it's just municipal elections and doesn't really influence people's lives much. He said he's never voted himself. Neither men nor women have the right to elect the leader of their country.

[Enrico Palazzo]

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