900 Saudi women running for office

With less than two weeks until voting gets underway in Saudi Arabia, campaigning by women taking part in elections for the first time is in full swing.

It will be the first polls since the 2011 decision by late Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz to grant women the right to vote and run for office in the ultra-conservative country. Women will be selected as members of the next Shoura Council, the appointed body that advises the government on new laws.

"We have been waiting to be given this oppor…
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