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Bahrain's
main opposition group registers impressive victory
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM, Agencies
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Manama:
The main opposition Al-Wefaq group notched an impressive victory
in Bahrain's third parliamentary elections, winning all 18 seats
it contested.
However, it still fell short of a majority in the 40-member lower
house of a bicameral National Assembly, referred to in the local
media as Majlis Al-Nuwab, or House of Representatives.
Other important political groups such as Al-Asalah and Minbar did
very badly in their traditional constituencies and many of their
leading candidates failed to win enough votes to avoid a second
round of polling, which takes place Oct. 30.
The two groups, which had held a combined 15 seats in the outgoing
National Assembly and were part of the ruling bloc, won only three
seats. Another seven of their candidates will have to enter a
second round of voting.
Among the prominent winners were 10 business-oriented,
pro-government candidates. Most of them ran as independents.
Al-Wefaq won 17 seats in the 2006 elections and had supported one
independent who too emerged victorious.
In that sense, Al-Wefaq has maintained its tally. It is now hoping
that two prominent candidates from the leftist-liberal Al-Waad
grouping — Munira Fakhro and Ibrahim Shareef — will win their
seats in the second round.
If they do, then the lower house will be split equally. Fakhro had
contested in 2006 as well and lost narrowly. There were 127
parliamentary candidates in the running, including eight women,
for 35 seats. Five candidates, including a woman, were elected
unopposed.
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