Two reports in this morning’s GDN and the Daily Tribune suggest that one of the candidates of the Southern Governate has practically pulled out of the race in favour of his opponent even though he got through to the second round. The reason given for his withdrawal is quite intriguing, but I suspect should even …
Month: October 2010
The first phase of the parliamentary and municipal elections are over with a few surprising twists which I think will result in a stronger chamber this time around. According to this morning’s Al-Wasat – whose staff did an exemplary job yesterday with their instantaneous updates, unlike our national Bahrain TV who screwed up even our Foreign Minister’s name! So, the scene so far looks like this:
I spent a wonderful afternoon in the garden planting some annuals in so far barren borders, and that lifted my spirits and my vision of the borders in a month or so is full of colour and texture. Can’t wait!
I’ve just come back from the last election rally for Waad on the night of the 21 October before the polls open on Saturday 23 October to receive Bahrainis who will cast their ballots for parliamentary and municipal councillors for a four year term, the third such event in Bahrain’s modern history. The rally took …
So far, Khalid Al-Shaer, the candidate running for the 4th District in the Central Governate against Dr. Muneera Fakhro of Waad is in second place, according to this poll in Al-Wasat this morning in which Mr. Alshaer got 29% against Dr. Muneera Fakhro’s 43%. Quite surprising really as his purported electioneering budget needs a truck …