In the Kingdom of Bahrain, voters have been going to the polls in twenty-one constituencies Thursday in the second round of the national elections to elect their representatives to the House of Deputies in which Islamists are poised to be the dominant force.
Election committee chief executive, Sheikh Ahmed bin Ateyyatullah Al Khalifa called on voters to exercise "their national duty and to take this round as seriously as the first," which was held last Thursday.
In the first round of the Kingdom’s first legislative elections in three decades, 53.48 per cent of the total 243,500 eligible voters cast their votes, according to Gulf News.
The elections are being boycotted by four political groups, which claim the reforms, initiated by King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and by which the elections have been made possible, have not gone far enough. (Albawaba.com)
