Seventeen women have won seats in municipal councils in Saudi Arabia as the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom allowed females to vote and run as candidates for the first time in history in an election on Saturday.
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A second woman, Hanouf bint Mufrih bin Ayid al-Hazmi, won in the northwestern region of Jawf, SPA said, adding that in the kingdomÕs east, Sanna Abdel Latif Hamam and Maasooma Abdel Mohsen al-Rida were elected in Ihsa province. Around 7,000 candidates, amongst them 979 women, competed within the election for a seat on the municipal councils, in that are the one authorities body elected by Saudi citizens.
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Women rest after casting their votes at a polling station during municipal elections, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 12, 2015.
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General Election Commission representative Hamad said that out of 130,000 female registered voters, a staggering 106,000 cast ballots, or 82 percent. Those figures compare to 1.35 million registered male voters and 5,938 male candidates who were vying for almost 300 municipal seats, the only positions open to elections in Saudi Arabia, which is ruled by an absolute monarch.
Numerous female candidates were not allowed to campaign directly with the opposite gender, and had to do so through social media.
That total could increase by one because Qahtani said a man and a woman got the same number of votes in one district, and the final victor will be determined in the next three days.
She ran against seven men and two women in Saturday’s ballot. Although King Abdullah died in January this year, it is refreshing to know that the new conservative King Salman has followed in his steps by allowing women to vote and be voted for.
“I think it’s great that several women won in different regions of Saudi Arabia”, writer Maha Akeel told The Guardian. His administration also began to send more women to universities and allowed them to work as part of the goal to give women a bigger role in society.
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Saudi women still face many curbs in public life, including driving. It’s a significant change as in the two previous rounds of voting for the councils, in 2005 and 2011, were for men only.
