Sectarian lists circulate ahead of second round of Saudi polls
AFP, March, 2005
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DAMMAM, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Election tickets drawn along sectarian lines are being circulated in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province as men there prepare to vote Thursday in the second round of landmark municipal elections.
The oil-rich region is home to most of Saudi Arabia's Shiite Muslim minority, estimated at more than 10 percent of the predominantly Sunni population, and that adds a different dimension to Thursday's stage of the electoral process.
"Do not be lazy ... Vote for the religious and moral," says a ticket for seven Sunni candidates endorsed by a number of local Sunni clerics, and being distributed in the city of Dammam.
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"Do not give the opportunity to (your) enemies, who are full of spite against your religion and homeland, those who spread depravation," says the pamphlet, in an apparent reference to Shiites.
Election lists are banned in the country's first-ever municipal polls. ...
