Bahrain’s Al-Wefaq Party to Boycott Parliamentary Elections
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Bahrain’s Al-Wefaq, the country’s main Shiite Muslim opposition group, said it will boycott a special parliamentary election scheduled for next month, a representative for the group said today.
“We do not want to participate in an election when the government has no intention of working with us,” Khalil al-Marzooq said in a telephone interview. “All of the revolutions we’ve seen in the Middle East were held by ordinary people, not by parliamentarians. We will still fight for equal rights for the people of Bahrain.”