Women in the Syrian Congress: Minutes of the Session of the Congress that Debated Women's Right to Vote (1920)

The most important debate that took place at the Syrian Congress and that was a sign of the social and spiritual condition of the whole country was the debate that began the day before yesterday on women's right to vote. During its scrutiny of the Articles of the Basic Law, the Congress reached the Article stating that every Syrian over 20 years of age who has not lost their civil rights has the right to be a primary elector, and that every Syrian over 25 years of age who has not lost their civil rights and not been sentenced to a prison term of more than one month, can be a secondary elector, provided that they can read and write and are neither a civil servant or an officer.

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The most important debate that took place at the Syrian Congress and that was a sign of the social and spiritual condition of the whole country was the debate that began the day before yesterday on women's right to vote. During its scrutiny of the Articles of the Basic Law, the Congress reached the Article stating that every Syrian over 20 years of age who has not lost their civil rights has the right to be a primary elector, and that every Syrian over 25 years of age who has not lost their civil rights and not been sentenced to a prison term of more than one month, can be a secondary elector, provided that they can read and write and are neither a civil servant or an officer.

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