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President Welcomes Bahrain Elections, The White House, 2007

Bahrain's First Legislative Elections in Nearly 30 Years

Call to reduce voting age to 18 in Bahrain, Gulf Research Center (2008)

 

Shiite calls for elected Bahraini government spark row, The Malaysian Insider (2010)

Bahrain’s largest Shi’ite parliamentary bloc is demanding that the Cabinet be chosen by its elected parliament, sparking a row with Sunni politicians that has drawn in foreign missions as well.

Sunni opposition leader: Bahrain election ‘will change nothing’, The National (2010)

The secretary general of the Adalah National Movement, blamed direct government interference and the use of public money to finance campaigns for what he predicts will be a parliamentary and municipal election that falls short of others in the Arab world, and said it is pessimistic about the results of November’s elections with no prospects for genuine parliamentary change.