LONDON: Saudi Arabia may allow women to vote in future elections, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal said yesterday, but he warned the West to stop pushing for reforms. He said the first municipal elections earlier in February, open to men only, had been such a success it was possible the vote might be extended to women.
"The commissioner of elections said after the elections for municipal councils that they went so well and testing the water proved so appealing that the commissioner is going to suggest to the government to have women vote in the next municipal elections," he told BBC television. The elections were the first stage of an unprecedented nationwide vote in the kingdom,