More than two months after the elections, the Transparency along with the Bahrain Human Rights Societies came out with their Elections Report yesterday in which they affirmed – basically – that the elections were “free and fair”. No reservations. No pointing out the obvious. But even condoned the use of the General Voting Centers which …
MP Nasser Al-Fudhala is one of the illustrious GVC MPs who fought, and with the Herculean effort of the government won in the recent elections against Sami Siyadi – a liberal MP fielded by the National Democratic Action Society (Wa’ad), and an excellent lawyer by trade. Nasser is actually very multi-talented, if this site is …
Whoever said that a woman cannot get just a “little” pregnant is totally wrong. Al-Wefaq Islamic Society has put paid to that myth. They are – officially – just a little pregnant. They mounted an excellent electioneering campaign in which 17 out of 18 candidates fielded won seats in Parliament, and they were even more …
But smiles are still effected. The broadest smiles seem to be exclusive to the GVC MPs… and they seem to be given extra times in their salams…
This is not a picture that would tug at the heart strings of people like Jassim Al-Saidi and Mohammed Khalid, both sworn to disrupt any move by the Al-Wefaq Islamic Society to discuss or propose any law. Mohammed Khalid is on record by swearing that he will “not let Al-Wefaq touch the Defence budget even …