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Saudi
Arabia allows women in parliament
Friday January 11, 2013 07:56:44 PM,
Agencies
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Dubai:
In a major breakthrough for Saudi women,
King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia issued Friday a
historic decree allowing women to be members of the kingdom’s
all-male Shura Council for the first time, a media report said.
The decree amended two article in the council’s statute
introducing a 20 percent quota for women in the country’s
150-member Shura Council, and the king appointed 30 women to join
the consultative assembly, Al Arabiya reported Friday.
The assembly, whose members are appointed by the king, works as
the formal advisory body of Saudi Arabia. It can propose draft
laws following which it would present them to the king, who, in
turn, would either pass or reject them.
Saudi Arabia is known for its conservative culture where women are
not allowed to drive despite the absence of a law saying so.
King Abdullah has introduced cautious economic and social reforms
aimed at reconciling Saudi Arabia’s religious traditions with the
needs of a modern economy and youthful population.
Thuraya al-Arrayed, an education specialist, who was appointed by
the king as a Shura Council member told Al Arabiya that the royal
decree “gave confidence to women to take part in important
decision-making matters in the country.”
“It is an opportunity given to us, and I expect this experience to
succeed. They are all qualified women,” she said.
“We are not here to represent ourselves but to represent the
public, women and men alike.”
“I expect this decision to open doors for qualified women to take
part in all fields and not just in politics but in all areas,”
al-Arrayed said.
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