BAHRAIN - May 30 - PM Promises Elected Shura Council.PM Shaikh Khalifa Bin Sulman Al Khalifa says Bahrain plans to allow its appointed Shura council
The Shura Council (Arabic: Majilis Al-Shura مجلس الشورى) is the upper house of Egyptian bicameral Parliament. to be chosen by popular vote in about 5 years, and to let women join the assembly starting later 2000. 'GNA' quotes the prime minister as saying: "We intend, with the support of the emir, to use elections as a way of forming the council after the next term". (The government set up the Shura council in 1992 to review laws drafted by the Cabinet before they are sent to the Emir Shaikh Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa for approval. In 1996, the island increased the council's members to 40 from 30 to widen wid·en tr. & intr.v. wid·ened, wid·en·ing, wid·ens To make or become wide or wider. wid  en·er n. popular representation. The council, which has no legislative powers,
has a 4-year term which starts in October. In 1975, Bahrain dissolved dis·solve v. dis·solved, dis·solv·ing, dis·solves v.tr. 1. To cause to pass into solution: dissolve salt in water. 2. its elected parliament, 2 years after it was set up. Political parties are banned in Bahrain. Restoration of the parliament was the demand fuelling unrest by the island's shi'ite Muslim Noun 1. Shi'ite Muslim - a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs Shi'ite, Shia Muslim, Shiite, Shiite Muslim community. The disturbances began in 1994 and abated Abated, an ancient technical term applied in masonry and metal work to those portions which are sunk beneath the surface, as in inscriptions where the ground is sunk round the letters so as to leave the letters or ornament in relief. From 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica in 1998.) |
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