Saudi Vote Stirs New Enthusiasm - WP

QUOTE. During his Riyadh campaign, Quayid said, voters often asked why he wanted to be on a municipal council that was nothing but "a decoration" put up under "American pressure."

His answer: "When I ran in the first place, I did not look at the authority of the council. . . . I thought about a constitutional institution that is elected for the first time in Saudi Arabia, in my age. I thought I wanted to be part of this process." UNQUOTE