Saudi Arabia: First woman councillor elected
A woman has won a seat on a municipal council for the first time in Saudi Arabia, after the kingdom lifted its bar on women taking part in elections.
Salma bint Hizab al-Oteibi won a seat in Mecca province in Saturday's vote.
Women have also won in several other regions in the country, including Jeddah and Qatif, reports suggest.
The election was the first where women were allowed to vote and stand as candidates, and is being viewed as a landmark in the conservative kingdom.
Saudi women still face many curbs in public life, including driving.
A total of 978 women registered as candidates, alongside 5,938 men.
Officials said about 130,000 women had registered to vote in Saturday's poll, compared with 1.35 million men.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35086357
First Woman Politician in Saudi Arabia
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Some one at the AFP is having a laugh.The disparity was attributed by female voters to bureaucratic obstacles and a lack of transport, the AFP news agency says.

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How can a woman do politics ? They can't even drive a car.
Anyway, why did they go straight to women?
They should have allowed camels to stand first, then dogs, and THEN women, if that all worked out.

Anyway, why did they go straight to women?
They should have allowed camels to stand first, then dogs, and THEN women, if that all worked out.
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Dave's gunna be real pissed about this!
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How long does anyone think she's going to live once the Wahabis catch wind of this? And who thinks that they will even let her speak at a meeting?
Saudi political kabuki theater, nothing more.
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A victory for feminism, oh wait, feminism doesn't give a fuck about real misogyny only their perceived misogyny of Western countries because real misogyny is scary and deadly. So they only complain about non issues in the West. What a useless ideology and a bunch of cowards. Feminism supports Islam because intersectionality, fucking cowards and liars, feminism support equal rights for women, my arse.Śiva wrote:Saudi Arabia: First woman councillor elected
A woman has won a seat on a municipal council for the first time in Saudi Arabia, after the kingdom lifted its bar on women taking part in elections.
Salma bint Hizab al-Oteibi won a seat in Mecca province in Saturday's vote.
Women have also won in several other regions in the country, including Jeddah and Qatif, reports suggest.
The election was the first where women were allowed to vote and stand as candidates, and is being viewed as a landmark in the conservative kingdom.
Saudi women still face many curbs in public life, including driving.
A total of 978 women registered as candidates, alongside 5,938 men.
Officials said about 130,000 women had registered to vote in Saturday's poll, compared with 1.35 million men.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35086357
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Saudi is probably going to elect a female leader before Labour does.
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"Democracies" need leaders who will do what they are told. A woman in Saudi Arabia would seem to fit that definition well.
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