- Council of Representatives of Bahrain
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The Council of Representatives (Majlis an-nuwab), sometimes translated as the "Chamber of Deputies", is the name given to the lower house of the Bahraini National Assembly, the main legislative body of Bahrain.
The body was created by the 2002 Constitution of Bahrain. The Council comprises forty members elected by universal suffrage.
The forty seats of the Council of Representatives together with the forty royally-appointed seats of the Consultative Council form the Bahraini National Assembly.
The current chairman of the Council is Khalifa Al Dhahrani. The last elections for the Council were in October 2010.
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Prominent MPs
- Speaker: Khalifa Al Dhahrani
- First Deputy Speaker: Adel Mouwda
- Ali Mattar
- Jassim Al Saeedi
- Lateefa Al Gaood (first female MP in the Gulf region)
Latest election
Summary of the 23 October and 30 October 2010 Council of Representatives of Bahrain elections results Party Ideology Seats Al Wefaq Shia Islamist 18 Al Asalah Sunni Salafist 3 Al-Menbar Islamic Society Sunni Islamist 2 Independents Various (all Sunni) 17 Total 40 Source: "Independents the biggest winners". Gulf Daily News. 1 November 2010. http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=290557. See also
- Bahraini National Assembly
- Consultative Council of Bahrain
- Bahrain election 2006 women candidates
- List of Speakers of the Council of Representatives of Bahrain
External links
- Council of Representatives official website
- Key issues are "ignored by MPs", Gulf Daily News, 21 January 2006 covers attitudes among civil society groups to MPs' performance since 2002
- Constitution of Bahrain (2002):Part 2 The Chamber of Deputies
Categories:- Politics of Bahrain
- National lower houses
- National Assembly of Bahrain
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