DUBAI Bahrainis were voting on Saturday in the final round of the Gulf kingdom’s first legislative elections since the minority authorities crushed pro-democracy protests led by the majority in 2011. Controversy clouded last weekend’s first round and its focus on turnout, a key marker of the validity of the election, after the opposition boycotted it, calling it a “farce”. The official BNA news agency said people flocked to polling stations in large numbers on Saturday morning to choose Read more [...]

The total number of voters who boycotted the elections represented only 15.1 percent, a minister said on Saturday night.Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa , justice, Islamic affairs and endowments minister, announced the number at a press conference as the voting in Bahrain came to a close.The minister said the second round of polls held on Saturday were smooth.He also said Saturday's turnout rates, which were 52.6 percent, were good."Some people have questioned the official figures Read more [...]

    MANAMA — Bahraini voters returned to the polls on Saturday for a runoff election for the island nation’s new parliament. The elections will determine the makeup of the 40-seat lower house of parliament. It follows a first-round vote last weekend, when only six candidates secured an outright majority to claim their seats. “I am here to vote because I have to be part of the democratic process, which took 100 years to be completed Read more [...]

Manama, Nov29(BNA)Bahrainis have today proved their patriotic mettle and turned out massively to cast their ballots in the parliamentary and municipal run-off elections. Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments Minister, High Elections Committee President Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Al-Khalifa seized the occasion to pay tribute to Bahrainis for their massive participation to push the democratic march forward. "The Read more [...]

KUNA publishes a book titled (His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah: A Humanitarian Leader) to commemorate the UN honoring of Kuwait’s leader

Manama, Nov29(BNA) Out of the Interior Ministry's responsibility to protect the security and general order surrounding the second round of the parliamentary and municipal elections on Saturday, the police reinforced security deployments in all areas and villages in Bahrain, in addition to the main and sub-roads leading to voting stations. There was also a heavy deployment of traffic patrols to ensure smooth Read more [...]