NPR: 21 women were elected as they were allowed to vote for the first time.
NPR: 21 women were elected as they were allowed to vote for the first time.
In municipal council races in Saudi Arabia a week ago, 21 female candidates were elected to office. In the country’s third-ever elections, the monarchy gave women the right to vote, as well as to seek election to office.
Nearly 1,000 women ran throughout the country, but while there were 1.36 million men registered to vote, according to the Wall Street Journal, only 130,000 women could vote.
