Les femmes n'iront pas voter...
Women in Saudi Arabia will not be allowed to vote in the long-delayed municipal elections to be held in September, the election commission said on Monday.
Saudi Arabia announced last week it will hold the elections, in the first political concession since protests sweeping the region reached the kingdom.
"There is nothing to stop the participation of the woman but this needs some preparations and we cannot make these preparations in all regions of the kingdom," the commission said in a statement.
Voter registration opens on April 23 and the elections will be held on September 22, an official at the commission told Reuters.
The Gulf Arab state is a monarchy ruled by the al-Saud family in alliance with clerics from the strict Wahhabi school of Islam. Women must be covered from head to toe in public and are not allowed to drive.
Saudi women are also subject to a male "guardianship" system which requires they show permission from their guardian -- father, brother or husband -- to travel or, sometimes, work.
Pour la suite: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/28/saudi-women-vote-ban_n_841711.html
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