Another good deed from a US ally.
Just in case you missed this tidbit from the BBC website. I guess the mixture of oil and religious nonsense explains why the US continues to support this repressive regimes among the many all around the world?
"The Saudi interior minister has said women will not be allowed to vote in the country's municipal elections starting in February 2005.
In response to a question about women's getting the vote, Prince Nayef bin Sultan said simply: "I don't think that women's participation is possible."
An election law published in August did not explicitly ban women from voting.
This led many campaigners for women's rights to hope for a substantial breakthrough for Saudi women.
The Associated Press quotes an unnamed Saudi election official as saying that the main reasons for barring women from the election were administrative.
The official told AP that there were not enough women electoral staff to run women-only voter registration centres, while only a fraction of women in Saudi Arabia had photo identity cards."
"Saudi women barred from voting"
"The Saudi interior minister has said women will not be allowed to vote in the country's municipal elections starting in February 2005.
In response to a question about women's getting the vote, Prince Nayef bin Sultan said simply: "I don't think that women's participation is possible."
An election law published in August did not explicitly ban women from voting.
This led many campaigners for women's rights to hope for a substantial breakthrough for Saudi women.
The Associated Press quotes an unnamed Saudi election official as saying that the main reasons for barring women from the election were administrative.
The official told AP that there were not enough women electoral staff to run women-only voter registration centres, while only a fraction of women in Saudi Arabia had photo identity cards."
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