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Saudi Arabian regime and religion

Several months ago, women’s suffrage was on public agenda in Saudi Arabia. According to the ruling dynasty this issue wasn’t tackled in the last municipal elections (for instance, men and women have to vote in separate polling stations). Thus the dynasty promised that the next elections will make up for this.This bottleneck, which seems to be a harmless technical one at first glance, however, only illustrates…

Mosque Masjid al-Nabawi, Medina, Saudi Arabia. Source: Wikipedia.org

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Unfavorable conditions for democratization in Saudi Arabia

Elections into 178 regional assemblies took place in the year 2005 in Saudi Arabia between February 10 and April 21. Despite the fact that these elections were only communal and for various reasons non-democratic and illegitimate (e.g. half of the assembly is decreed by the government, women could not participate in the elections) their importance is multiplied by the fact that it was the first time…