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Bahraini National Assembly

National Assembly
Type
Type
Houses Consultative Council
Council of Representatives
Leadership
Ali Bin Saleh Al-Saleh
Since 24 November 2010
Ahmed Bin Ibrahim Al-Mulla
Since 14 December 2014
Structure
Seats 80
40 in the Consultative Council
40 Representatives
Consultative Council (Bahrain) diagram.svg
Consultative Council political groups
     Independent (40)
Council of Representatives (Bahrain) diagram.svg
Council of Representatives political groups

     Al Asalah (2)
     Al-Menbar (1)

     Independent (37)
Elections
Appointed by the King
Two-round system
22 November 2014
Meeting place
Manama
Website
www.shura.bh

     Al Asalah (2)
     Al-Menbar (1)

The National Assembly is the name of both chambers of the Bahraini parliament when sitting in joint session, as laid out in the Constitution of 2002.

It has 80 seats formed from the 40 elected members of the Council of Representatives (the lower house) and the 40 royally-appointed members of the Consultative Council (the upper house).

It is chaired by the Speaker of the Consultative Council, or by the Speaker of the Council of Representatives if the former is absent.

Under the 1973 Constitution (), the National Assembly was a single chamber parliament consisting of forty members elected by "universal suffrage". However, the then Amir, Shaikh Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah decreed that women would not be considered as "universal suffrage" and were not allowed to vote in the 1973 parliamentary elections.

The first ever National Assembly in Bahrain was elected in 1973 under the statutes of the first constitution which was promulgated of that same year. In 1975 the Assembly was dissolved by the then Emir Shaikh Isa ibn Salman al-Khalifa because it refused to pass the government sponsored State Security Law of 1974. The Emir subsequently did not allow the Assembly to meet again or hold elections during his lifetime.


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