First Time Ever: Saudi Women Can Now Register To Vote

For the first time ever women in Saudi Arabia have been allowed to register to vote ahead of municipal elections scheduled for December.

Saudi women will not only be able to vote in the upcoming elections but will also be able to run for office in December this year.
Saudi Gazette newspaper identified Jamal al Saadi and Safinaz Abu al Shamat as the first two women who registered themselves as voters in Madina and Makkah, respectively.

Talking to Saudi Gazette, a local newspaper, Saadi said “The participation of the Saudi women in the municipal elections as voters and candidates was a dream for us.”

Over a third of 1,263 voting centers in municipal council elections, scheduled for December, have now been reserved for women in the country — which still maintains strict segregation of men and women.
Source: Tribune PK