More than 900 women are running for public office in municipal elections in Saudi Arabia, a country that granted partial suffrage to women only four years ago, CNN reports. The municipal elections on Dec. 12 are the first since 2011, when the late King Abdullah decreed that women could vote or run for office in the kingdom — though only at the local level. Saudi election officials opened voting registration to women in August, CNN says.
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