On 25th September, the Saudi monarch, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, issued a decree that allowed Saudi women to enter the shura council and be nominated for candidacy in municipal elections.
On 25th September, the Saudi monarch, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, issued a decree that allowed Saudi women to enter the shura council and be nominated for candidacy in municipal elections. This decision was consistent with a series of transformative royal decrees issued since Abdullah’s ascendancy to the throne in 2005. The main features of the course charted by these reforms became manifest shortly before his reign while he was still crown prince...