They received the right to hold political office in 1973.[21] However, in a 1982 referendum, the women of San Marino did not win the right to retain their Sammarinese citizenship if they married male foreigners (19,000 Sammarinese voters voted to not abolish the 1928 law that striped Sammarinese women of Sammarinese citizenship if they married foreigners); as a result of losing Sammarinese citizenship, the women also lost the right to vote, to work, to own property, to reside in, and to inherit property in the Republic of San Marino.[22] These citizenship laws were later changed by the parliament in 2000,[23] and 2004,[24] allowing women to keep their citizenship and transmit it to their children and husband.