AP reports:
Hundreds of Kuwaiti women activists and their male supporters marched on parliament Monday in the conservative Gulf state's largest female suffrage rally, as the government pushed lawmakers for a quick debate on reforms to give women the right to vote.
The government's move was the strongest indication yet that Kuwait's all-male democracy might soon allow women to cast ballots and run for office.
In response a fundamentalist leader asked:
"Can you imagine a brigadier driving his wife or his daughter to the polling
station, and waiting for them in the car?" he said.
Of course not, in an open society they can drive themselves.
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