NIHR Holds a Lecture for Participants in the Process of Observing the Parliamentary and Municipal Elections
Within the framework of its participation in the process of observing parliamentary and municipal elections in its capacity as an independent body under its Establishment Law, the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) held an awareness lecture entitled “The Role of the National Institution for Human Rights in Monitoring the (Parliamentary and Municipal) Election Process in the Kingdom of Bahrain”, for members of the NIHR’s Council of Commissioners, presented by Dr. Bader Mohamed Adel, a member of the NIHR’s Council of Commissioners, during which he dealt with the general concepts on elections, the stages of monitoring the electoral process, the preliminary and organizational procedures for the formation of the Parliamentary and Municipal Election Monitoring Committee in the NIHR, the mechanism for making recommendations in monitoring the electoral process, and the responses of the competent authorities in this regard.
During the lecture, Dr. Bader also discussed the NIHR’s role in establishing the principle of transparency and integrity, by observing the independence and impartiality of the elections, field monitoring of the progress of the electoral process through field presence at polling stations and providing the temporary committee on observing parliamentary and municipal elections with all data and observations related to the electoral process.
It is worth mentioning that the NIHR has many experiences in monitoring elections at the local, regional and international levels, as it monitored the parliamentary and municipal elections that were held in the Kingdom of Bahrain in 2014 and 2018, and participated in observing legislative elections in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the regional elections in the Kingdom of Morocco that took place in 2015 within the team of the Arab Network for
National Human Rights Institutions (ANNHRI), and the elections of the Russian House of Representatives (Duma) in 2021.
