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Director of the Arabic channel i24NEWS
More than 330 candidates, totaling a record 73 women, are vying to register for the 40-seat council.
Turnout in Bahrain’s first election in four years reached 73% on Saturday, the percentage in the kingdom’s history.
Bahrainis went to the polls the day before with a record number of others vying for parliamentary seats. This is the first election held in the Gulf country in four years, an era that has seen the covid pandemic and a historic normalization agreement with Israel. .
More than 330 candidates, totaling a record 73 women, are vying to register for the 40-seat Council of Representatives, the cramped seat in parliament that advises King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, who has ruled since his father’s death in March 1999. .
This is an increase from the 293 people, adding 41 women, who ran in parliamentary elections in 2018.
Queues formed outdoors at some of the kingdom’s 55 polling stations before they opened at 8 a. m. local time.
Amina Issa, head of a polling station in Manama, said turnout had been “intense since the early hours, and the number is increasing. “
i24NEWS’ correspondent in Bahrain, Ali Waked, reported animated scenes at the polling stations he visited, with entire families arriving together to vote.
A hacking operation on Friday targeted the official website of the online elections, as well as the websites of the parliament and the state news agency, all 3 were restored on Saturday afternoon.
“Websites are being targeted to obstruct elections and circulate negative messages in desperate attempts that will not affect the determination of citizens who will go to polling stations,” the Interior Ministry said.
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