Saudi Arabia waits for power change?

Saudi Arabia — one of the last places in the world where the power of the monarch is almost absolute and in many respects the foreign and domestic policy of the country strongly depends on the identity of the monarch. Thus inheritance of a throne happens not on habitual European system "from the father — to the son", and by the archaic principle, something similar to the lestvichny right of Ancient Russia. The new king far it does not become obligatory the son of the previous king but where is more often — the senior man in a sort. Considering that in a family Saudov thousands people hundreds from which can apply for a throne are...