COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES OF BAHRAIN

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 combines 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 be in September 2006.

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Prominent MPs

Latest election

See also

External links

Prominent MPs

★ Speaker: Khalifa Al Dhahrani

★ First Deputy Speaker: Adel Mouwda

★ Ali Mattar

★ Jassim Al Saeedi

Latest election

See also

★ Bahraini National Assembly

★ Consultative Council of Bahrain

★ Bahrain election 2006 women candidates

External links

★ Website of the Council of Representatives

★ Key issues are "ignored by MPs", Gulf Daily News, 21 January 2006 covers attitudes among civil society groups to MPs' performance since 2002

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