By the standards of Western, and even emerging Third World democracies, the Saudi municipal elections are an extremely modest affair. But in the Saudi context they are a real breakthrough.
按照西方的标准，甚至在崛起中的第三世界民主国家眼里，沙特的市政选举并非大事。但是对沙特人而言，这意味着一个真正的突破。