Bahrain’s Premier lauds historic victory of women MPs

His Royal Highness the Prime Minister, Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa on Sunday lauded the historic victory of women MPs which now constitutes 10% of the House. With successful conclusion of the Bahrain’s runoff election on Saturday, the process of electing another nine MPs to the Lower House of Parliament comes to an end.

There are two women MPs who declared successful in the runoff polls includes Ibtisam Abdulrahman Hijris Ahmed and Sumaya Abdulrahman Ali Ebrahim AlJowder. The seven MPs are Ali Abbas; Abdullah Shamtoot; Jamal Mohammed Saleh Abdullah; Ali Hassan Ahmed Ali; Khalid Jassim Ali Almalood; Mohammed Salim Buqais; Ahmed Abdulrahman Mahmoud AlSaati and Osama Jaber Ahmed Muhanna.

Addressing the Cabinet weekly meeting, HRH Prime Minister lauded the successful bye-elections which he considered as strong evidence of the inherent success of the Bahraini people in their various spectrums who supported democracy and boosted popular participation in order for the reformative process to continue and hailed candidates and electorates who played a huge role in making a success of the elections which brought women into parliament who scored an unprecedented 10% in the House of Representatives.
His Highness the Prime Minister emphasized that great popular participation reflected the people’s commitment to democracy as their strategic choice to ensure a better future.