So now it seems official. The throne has used its whiles to ensure that Dr. Munira Fakhro does not get elected to parliament.
Up to the initial vote count last night, she had 2,853 votes to the bought and paid for royal puppet Salah Ali’s 2,867. A mere 14 votes difference which ensured that there will be a second round between the two in the run offs on Dec 2nd.
Then came the foreign votes (by Bahrainis outside of Bahrain) which increased her share by 41 votes to a mere 8. Then, the big guns came out in the “general voting stations” where, surprise surprise, the puppet gets 1,191 to Munira’s 332.
Look at the trend, does that make sense?
Is there anyone still questioning the fairness of these elections?
But wait.. there are 4 more protagonists to look after: Abdulrahman Al-No’aimi, Ibrahim Sharif, Sami Siyadi and Abdulaziz Abul, all of whom should win hands down… unless…
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There are some nice pictures of goodie bags with the name of the good name of Dr. Salah Ali on them appear here.
What’s in those goodie bags? Purportedly security forces personnel passports and cprs with instructions for them to vote for Dr. Salah.
That’s directly from the Al-Wefaq site, so go talk to them, I’m just the messenger…
Shocking. Absolutely ridiculous. Crap.
How worse can corruption get………………..?!
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Challenge the result. :yes:
commiserations and condolences to all of us. our people got us the candidates we deserve. i hope there will be something salvageable after they’ve done their bit.
this is precisely why i have alwaus said i don’t believe in democracy. we don’t deserve it, and we don’t know what to do with it
my tummy hurts :no:
hat-off bandargate !
commiserations and condolences to all of us. our people got us the candidates we deserve. i hope there will be something salvageable after they’ve done their bit. there are two possibilities now: its going to be either battle of the sects or evil united.
this is precisely why i have always said i don’t believe in democracy. we don’t deserve it, and we don’t know what to do with it
I disagree. We DO deserve it, and we DO know what to do with it, if THEY would just understand that with a strong parliament you get a strong government which leads to a strong country with bountiful opportunities for all.
THEY don’t think of this in a partnership perspective, and never have. They think of this rather as necessary, if messy, PR that they can whip out whenever they want to impress anyone.
Of course, their favourite catchphrase is that it took the west (the UK is most cited) a few hundred years to get where they are now, an imperfect democracy, and we’re just started to crawl.
Well, Montenegro shot THAT asinine excuse out of the water so completely, that if they use this excuse again, they deserve what comes to them.
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Hmmmm, but I thought the whole figure reported of all eligible voters outside of Bahrain was less than 1000. Unfortunately I cannot remember where I read this news. Therefore, I am unable to provide the link, yet.
http://www.alwasatnews.com/view.asp?tID=126556
Here is one link. In it, it is said that, all registered voters in all Bahraini embassies was 1,191 voters.
Why cannot we just take it that they put in valid votes, to the last card, and they all voted for the doctor. ….. why is this so hard to believe guys!
heheheh wwooooo
well .. it’s even worse than that .. they meant the general vote centers… means .. the last resort for the gov.. to rescue their puppets .. it’s like having bahraini embassies .. but in bahraini soil .. u get to catch two birds.. one .. is no one is ssing whats going on … two is .. u get all the ppl u can get .. without statistics .. to bother u .. what a shame ..
Mahmood, you said:
We DO deserve it, and we DO know what to do with it, if THEY would just understand that with a strong parliament you get a strong government which leads to a strong country with bountiful opportunities for all.
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the key word is IF. I would actually say WHEN. until then, this is what we’ve got!
if I look at their line-up, I see only one person who really understands anything about the economy and that’s Jassim Hussein. a lot are unknown quantities, let’s hope there are more.
a shame we lost Fareed Ghazi and A. Nabi Salman,.sadly we got Moh’d Khalid and Saeedi back. Abul would be great, but the way things are going, who knows..
and what good can a few lone good voices do in the face of such numbers. Once again, I find myself looking to the Shura to hopefully redress the imbalance.
if nothing fishy happenned, and I sincerely hope it didn’t, and have to assume it didn’t for now, we can say the elections were free and fair, but voters voted with the wrong criteria, tribally, not for what’s best for the country’s economic future. to me, that means we are not ready for democracy
I’m not comfortable with the notion that we are not ready for democracy. That to me might as well be that we’re not yet ready to breath clean air. We don’t have that, but should definitely strive to get it.
There is nothing magical about democracy, when the chips are down, it is only one system of governance which caters to the rule of the majority while taking care of the needs of the minority. It is something different to every person, but the common denominator is simply ruling a country with oversight, with transparency and with the premise of equal opportunities. Most important of course if for the people who voted that government in, can vote it down if they don’t do their job. Peacefully.
What in all of that are we not ready for? And if we don’t make an attempt at it now, regardless of how small a step that might be, how are we ever going to be ready?
think about how bad will it be to have people from WAAD to discuss thngs with some broom-faced guy without a primary school certificate. people are dumb enough to vote for them and give them 1%.
We’re counting on the four we have left.
ok, we can agree to disagree. in most cases, i think democracy means mediocre decisions by people who are not necessarily qualified to make decisions and the result is compromises that serve participants’ egos. unless you get really smart people who can make the case and sell it to the others.. we can hope.
anyway,
now looking at the numbers:
you say that before the foreign votes, M had 2853 and S had 2867. total votes in that district were 6074.
after the foreign votes, according to the voteforbahrain site, M had 3196 and S had 4066. that means that there were 343 votes for M and 1199 votes for S. that totals 1546. and the total votes in that district are 7596.
so:
1) 20.35% of that district’s voters voted from abroad?!!
2) there are 40 districts in Bahrain, and yet, 1546 foreign voters come from one of those 40 districts. assuming this is a typical neighbourhood, the estimated number of voters abroad would be about 61,840 foreign voters in total? even a tenth of that would be surprising, n’est pas? and total voters are supposed to be around 600,000, 72% of whom voted.
3) how many bahrainis are abroad? keep in mind that not everyone abroad could have voted, because some couldn’t be bothered and some were too far away to get to a polling station.
are you sure about the figures from the local votes? because the numbers simply do not add up. no matter how you look at them.
ok, imisunderstood about the general polling stations. back to the counting table to do some more maths. apologies for my last outburst!
:no: … we have to call a spade a spade … it’s plain and simple fraud … something has to be done for this .. at least an investigation (i dunno it won’t be done) .. oh i forgot .. there was an even bigger scandle and we chose to look the other way .. and of course .. ppl who would’ve looked in the right direction .. should be kept away at all costs… i guess they added as much votes as they can .. and it wasn’t enough .. they noticed that nobody is looking .. so they added more .. and still not enough .. hmmmm looking right … :love: and left … 8) no one is loooking… just put in all the bag of votes that we need to keep the dog in the backyard.. and voila .. u got ur self a home made .. maid ..errr i meant MP.. :no: what a shame…
“can we talk now” the General Polling Stations are in Bahrain and not outside (foreign) the country. According to your figures 20.35% voted in the general polling stations that is large number of voters. Are there other districts where the voters opted to vote outside their districts in such large number?
By the way Saeed and Salah won and Daud lost. AlBander report mentioned these three characters :yes:
do we know how many eligible voters live in that district?
If this is true then it is very reminscentof the most famous peom: –
ما كنت Ø£ØÂسب أنالدخنÙÂاكهة/ØÂتى مررت بواديآل عمار
قوم إذا استنبؠالأضيا٠كلبهم/قالوا لأمهم بوليعلى النار
ÙÂضيقت ÙÂر.. بخلا ببولتها/ÙÂلم تبل لهم إلا بمقدار
Transalates as: –
I had never considered millet as a fruit
Till I wandered by the valley of AaliAmmari
Whenever their dog barked, sensing potential outlying guests
in the darkness of the desert
they ask her to put fire off by p’ing on it
but, the mother of all niggardlies, would compress her ureter
so much so that only the exact amount of urine needed is dropped
with a view to ensuring that guests’ go astry
in the dark again
Is this a man or a woman?
All of wa3d’s candidates are getting a bit of a beating and thier situation seems perilous.
Don’t take it personally Munira, your only mistake in these elections was attempting to transcend the sectarian agenda. The constituencies were carefully constructed precisely to enshrine sectarianism with truckloads of imported votes for consolidatory support.
The government wants this parliament to be a sectarian cockpit of conflict and rife. Whereas the last parliament was weak and trivial, now it will be loud and conflicting. In both cases, the parliament will be useless in legislating change.
These elections were never based on personality as much as they were based on allegiences. It was a stupid policy for the opposition societies to send in their front line officers to the peril of this parliament. Their strategy for the next 4 years is no better than the boycotting strategy of 4 years ago.
I truly hope I am proved wrong.
What a shame! Munira Fakhro will always remain a strong woman who epitomises courage and strength .Giving out money worked for him…………………. Munira Fakro its a pleasure knowing and understanding you. It’s an honour for me to meet someone who has a vision to lead.You are above all this .
Muneera Fakhro deserves to be in a higher position in this country, her hardwork and determination in the elections just proved to all of us Bahraini’s how much of a well respected person she really is.. I congratulate her for her tremendous efforts and I know that this so called “Dr. Salah” knows how much of a threat she’s been for him.
Screw him and the “minbar” that takes refuge from, its a real shame to have those Puppets (and I blindly agree with you) being re-elected again..
Generally speaking, when the votes are counted electronically the election may have been stolen. I know that Diebold voting machines may be pre-set. As long as they show ZERO when the vote starts the election officials may not catch it. See, Dieboled may be pre-set with a net of plus for one candidate and minus for another candidate and no one can tell.
Here in Oklahoma we use Optec 3ps. The day after the election I went over and video taped everything. I need to do a follow-up to see if the code is available to the general public (which suspect that it is not) to get the whole story.
Think about it. Video tape it.
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check this out .. and know this.. the best solution for all the matters .. u need bahrainization .. here u go .. u want voters … here u go .. what a shame :no:
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finally it worked… anyways … check the date of issue …
I read this morning in Arab News that a woman had won a seat and I thopught”WOOHOO!
Now my hopes and dreams for today have been dashed. Why should I be surprised? =(
She was one of the few qualified women’s & eligible for the seat
how come latifa AL-Quoad got the chair this easy o I forgot MP Latifa
It wasn’t only a peace of cake maybe crumbs of a cake
I didn’t read all ur comments guys but I know that u have said the truth
And inshallah Sami Syadi will win and beat the so called SHEIKH huh Nasser al fudhala
Am not registered to vote am only 18 but inshallah all my family will vote to Sami
And all the honorable respected nationalism will get the chance to represent us in the parliament not some hired puppets by the government
This a little tribute from me to Dr. Munira
http://jessyx.jeeran.com/dr-munira.png
thank u brother mahmood …
adel marzooq