JEDDAH — The Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs will allow women candidates in municipal elections to use social media platforms. The ministry also said through its Twitter account that the General Committee for Municipal Elections will allow female candidates to use newspapers to carry out their election campaigns conforming to Shariah controls as well as to set up election headquarters. The candidates will be granted licenses for various types of election campaigns. The tweet from the ministry indicated that women candidates have the right to obtain licenses to run election campaigns directed at both male and female voters.
