Bahrainis delivered a massive vote of confidence in their democracy yesterday, with an estimated 72 per cent turnout for the parliamentary and municipal council elections. This was 18pc up on the turnout for elections in 2002, said High Elections Committee executive director Wael Buallay, shortly after polling stations closed. Information Minister Dr Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar [...]
Bahrain will go to the polls by December 13 at the latest it was declared yesterday. The deadline for the municipal and parliamentary elections was revealed for the first time by Minister of State for Cabinet affairs and Central Informatics Organisation Shaikh Ahmed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa. He said the exact date for the elections [...]
A campaign was launched last night to teach people about the e-voting system to be used in the forthcoming municipal and parliament elections. More than 50 representatives of various political societies and non-governmental organisations attended a workshop on e-voting at the InterContinental Hotel last night. It was addressed by Central Informatics Organisation (CIO) IT director [...]
أكد وزير الدولة لشئون مجلس الوزراء رئيس الجهاز المركزي للمعلومات الشيخ Ø£Øمد بن عطية الله آل خليÙØ© أن الØكومة ملتزمة بإجراء الانتخابات ÙÙŠ موعدها، وهذا الموعد لن يتجاوز بأي Øال من الأØوال تاريخ 13 ديسمبر/ كانون الأول 2006 ÙˆÙÙ‚ الاشتراطات الدستورية، أما تØديد اليوم بالضبط والدعوة إلى الانتخاب ÙÙŠ اليوم والتاريخ المØدد، Ùيصدر به مرسوم [...]
Bahrain’s Shia Muslim opposition boycotted the political process for four years, but have now decided to take part in the next elections in a bid to change the Sunni government from within. The boycott by four Shia movements in 2002 effectively ended on May 1, when the largest of them, Al Wefaq (the Islamic National [...]
Information Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar last night ruled out granting any new licences to private radio and television channels. “There is no law regulating such activitiesâ€, he added. GDN :: 24 June ’06 (pdf)
The Bahraini government’s draft legislation on public meetings and demonstrations undermines the right of peaceful assembly, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter urging Bahrain’s king not sign the bill into law. The draft law will be the first significant human rights-related legislation to come before Bahrain’s king, Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa [...]
MPs threatened not to rubber stamp Bahrain’s 2007-2008 budget yesterday, demanding more time to study it.The Cabinet is expected to hand over the two-year budget next week and ask MPs to approve it in “urgent” talks. That means MPs will have two weeks to study, approve or reject the budget. But parliament’s financial and economic [...]
A decision by parliament to only question government ministers on irregularities behind closed doors could be overturned. Ten MPs have signed an urgent request to scrap last week’s controversial vote and have a fresh one. Ministers could previously be summoned before a full session of parliament and be grilled on the open floor, but only [...]
«Øــق» ليســت متشــددة قلالي – Ùهيم عبدالله يمثل وضعا غريبا بالنسبة إليه كرجل دين سني، إذ كان على رأس مجموعة معارضة جريئة إبان أيام أمن الدولة. .. وكان ضمن مجموعة مهندسي العرائض التاريخية بدءاً من العريضة النخبوية ÙÙŠ مطلع التسعينات والعريضة الشعبية بعدها بسنين، ومن ثم العريضة الأممية التي تجمع توقيعاتها Øركة «Øق» ÙÙŠ هذه [...]
