MANAMA: Hundreds of thousands of Bahrainis turned up at various polling stations throughout the day on Saturday to cast their votes in the country's third parliamentary elections since 2002.The overwhelming turnout, especially that of women, came as a pleasant surprise. There were fears, stoked largely by some regional and Western news agencies, that a large section of society might boycott the electoral process in protest against the government's crackdown on "anti-national" activists. Those fears turned out to be untrue.
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MANAMA: Hundreds of thousands of Bahrainis turned up at various polling stations throughout the day on Saturday to cast their votes in the country's third parliamentary elections since 2002.The overwhelming turnout, especially that of women, came as a pleasant surprise. There were fears, stoked largely by some regional and Western news agencies, that a large section of society might boycott the electoral process in protest against the government's crackdown on "anti-national" activists. Those fears turned out to be untrue.
For more information, please visit Arab News.