A CALL to redraw the constituencies for next year’s parliamentary and municipal elections went out from a gathering in Bahrain yesterday.
It would ensure more proportionate representation, particularly in densely populated areas.
Activists also called for an end to the practice of stamping voters’ passports, used in the first elections in 2002.
But any new election laws introduced must be in place at least six months before the polls, said delegates at a gathering organised by the Bahrain Transparency Society.
It discussed proposed new election rules, based on a list of 39 recommendations by the last parliamentary elections national monitoring committee.
The committee was made up of Bahrain Transparency Society and Bahrain Human Rights Society members and individuals.
