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Bahrain Elections 2018: 30% Turnout at Most, Opposition Urges Int’l Community to Respect People’s Will

Bahrain Elections 2018: 30% Turnout at Most, Opposition Urges Int’l Community to Respect People’s Will
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As the Bahraini elections closed down with a shy turnout, Bahrain’s al-Wefaq National Islamic Society declared in a press conference held by the Society's Deputy Secretary General, Sheikh Hussein al-Daihi, on Saturday [November 24, 2018], that the parliamentary and municipal elections in Bahrain have failed miserably.

Al-Daihi said that the elections witnessed a popular boycott of the masses from both loyalists and opposition supporters, as the turnout, according to statistics and information, amounted to not more than 28% and 30%, challenging the authorities to reveal with full transparency the election results.

"We have recorded a participation rate that did not exceed 7% in some districts, while others not exceeding 8% in the northern governorate, and in electoral districts of the capital, participation did not exceed that rate as well," he said during a press conference that took place in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Al-Daihi addressed the Bahraini people as saying: "You proved that you are unbreakable and can't be influenced by rhetoric. You made a national epic with great national cohesion. You proved that you are capable of making changes and shaping your bright future with this unprecedented determination."

He also addressed the international community: "The people of Bahrain demonstrated today and through their wide boycott their strong will to achieve change and freedom as well as their categorical rejection of the falsification of the national will. The international community must respect this will and support the people of Bahrain to support their just and legitimate demands."

"You have failed, and you will fail even more," al-Daihi told the regime. "The people of Bahrain have dealt you a slap you will not forget."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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