Al-Madinah News:- 6 candidates, including a woman, won the Bahraini parliament seats from the first round, while a round of return next Saturday will take place on the rest of the 34 seats.
And Sunday, according to the Higher Committee supervising the elections, the results showed that six candidates won the seats after they obtained the sufficient number of votes in their circles, which is one plus one, while the remaining seats will be competed in the return tour next Saturday.
Bahraini voters made their votes in polling stations across the Kingdom on Saturday, in new parliamentary elections that witnessed a record number of candidates.
According to the Bahraini News Agency, “Banna”, Bahraini Minister of Justice Nawaf bin Muhammad Al -Ma’awid announced at a press conference shortly after the end of the electoral process, which also included the municipal council, that the participation rate reached 73 %, which is “the highest participation rate since 2002”.
He continued, “No violations that affect the integrity of the electoral process have been recorded. ”
More than 330 candidates, including 73 women, competed to win 40 seats in the House of Representatives, which advises the Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
The number of candidates in the last 2018 elections was 293 people, including 41 women.
The number of voters registered in the Kingdom is about 350 thousand people, among the population of about 1. 4 million.
Bahrain’s monarch, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, congratulated his citizens on the “success” in voting in the parliamentary elections and municipal councils.
He praised the “great turnout and the wide participation that everyone witnessed in these elections,” expressing his thanks to the people of Bahrain for their national position and this “victory for the option to participate in their free independent will and their keenness to perform their national responsibilities.
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He also praised the efforts made by the Supreme Committee for Elections, the supportive sub -committees, and all the concerned authorities, and all workers and workers in the polling and sorting centers and volunteers, stressing that the people of Bahrain in all its categories stressed the correct option in strengthening the march of the reform project.
Agencies.
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