Women in Saudi Arabia to vote and run in elections

[x_butterfly19_x]

Women in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, King Abdullah has announced.

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[hardblue]

They can govern but not handle heavy machinery?

[fauxparadiso]

Or drive themselves or travel without permission from a man.

[yamamanama]

I can smell the farce half the planet away.

[ishachan]

At least change is coming for women in Saudi Arabia even if it's comine slowly

[x_butterfly19_x]

it's so half-arsed.

Because we refuse to marginalise women in society in all roles that comply with sharia

In all roles that comply with Sharia
oic

[x_butterfly19_x]

I love that Lagarde got that job!

[clevermanka]

"Women will be able to run as candidates in the municipal election and will even have a right to vote."?

Ooooh! They'll even have a right to vote! Did anyone else throw up a little when they read that?

I know this news should make me happy, but really it just made me more pissed off. =(

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[x_butterfly19_x]

ia, though I hopw, with women potentially elected, this will be a way for things to improve even more.

[yamamanama]

If they had any real influence and power and weren't just there to maintain the illusion of democracy. Saudi Arabia doesn't need sham elections, it needs a revolution.

[x_butterfly19_x]

:( It needs its very own Arab Spring.