Thugs attack ATMs

Gulf Daily News
Saturday, 4th October 2014
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Cracks appear in
electoral alliance
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CRACKS have started to
appear in a major Sunni
electoral alliance less than
two months before the
national polls.
Following a long meeting
on Thursday night, the six remaining member societies of
the National Alliance Coalition
(NAC) announced that they
would no longer be presenting
a united front at the municipal
council elections, and would
also field more than one candidate in certain areas for the
parliamentary elections.
A dispute over which can-
By RAJI UNNIKRISHNAN
didate should represent which
constituency led to the decision, NAC spokesman and National Unity Assembly (NUA)
board member Abdulla Al Huwaihi told the GDN.
“We, as a coalition, will field
one candidate each in nine constituencies while in another six
we have conflicts,” he said.
“We have decided to go
ahead with two candidates in
these six constituencies, and
leave it to the voters to choose
between them.
“Debates over a remaining
constituency are ongoing – we
hope to finalise it soon.
“We also decided that member societies will have their
own candidates in the municipal council elections and we
will not be represented by the
coalition.”
The GDN reported last week
that Al Wasat Arab Islamic Society – formerly the seventh
member of the NAC – had
“temporarily” suspended its
membership, citing a lack of
focus as the reason for its withdrawal.
However, head of NAC and
NUA president Dr Shaikh Abdullatif Al Mahmood said that
a letter submitted by the society
had made no mention of any
reason for its decision.
“We have learnt that the delay in finalising the election
candidates led the society to
pull out,” he said, adding that
the delay was caused solely by
one of the member societies,
who took a long time to finalise
its candidate list.
Out of the remaining six societies, NUA and Al Menbar
National Islamic Society have
seven candidates each; Nation- – Al Menbar), Six (Mohamal Action Charter Society (Al med Al Buainain – Al Meetaq
Meetaq) has six candidates; the and Dr Salah Al Khalifa – Al
National Dialogue Society (Al Hewar), Nine (Mohammed Al
Hewar) has one candidate and Quty – NUA and Mohammed
the Islamic Shura Society has Al Dossary – Al Meetaq) and
none.
Five (Khalifa Al Ghanem – Al
The nine constituMeetaq and a candiencies where the NAC
date from Al Menbar
will be represented by
– yet to be finalised);
an “alliance candiMuharraq Governordate” are Muharraq
ate Two (Salem RaGovernorate – One
jab – NUA and Dr Ali
(Dr Sa’di Muhammad
Ahmed – Al Menbar)
– Al Menbar), Four
and Northern Gover(Abdulla Al Owainati
norate Ten (Seema Al
– NUA), Five (Sami
Linghawi – NUA and
Al Shaer – NUA); n Mr Al Huwaihi outgoing MP MohamCapital Governorate
med Al Ammadi – Al
– Three (Abbas Al Sarraj – Al Menbar).
Meetaq), Four (Ibrahim Al
The NUA is the only society
Mannai – Al Meetaq), Ten (Wa- in the coalition to field women
jih Baqer – Al Meetaq); North- candidates for parliament – two
ern Governorate – Eight (Adel out of its allotted seven – while
Al Dhawadi – Al Menbar), it also has two women running
Nine (Ahmed Arad – NUA) for municipal council.
and Southern Governorate –
Candidates have from OcFive (Dr Hashim Al Madani – tober 15 to October 19 to file
Al Menbar).
their nominations for the parliaThe “conflict constituen- mentary and municipal council
cies” are Southern Governor- elections, which are slated to
ate – One (Jehan Mohammed take place on November 22.
– NUA and Khalid Al Qattan
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n Participants in the Miss Philippines Bahrain 2014 contest
were honoured in a ceremony at Fortune Tower, Juffair. Kristin
Grace Reyes, 22, won the title with Laila Yousif, 18, Joebelle
Capuloy, 26, and Alice Rodelias, 22, in second, third and
fourth places, respectively. Sponsors, supporters, organisers
and participants were presented with certificates. Above, the
winners with organisers and other officials.
9am to 4pm
2nd & 3rd days of Eid
n The damaged AUB ATM at roundabout 10
Thugs attack ATMs
VANDALS yesterday attacked
a number of ATMs.
Thugs detonated gas cylinders near two machines belonging to Ahli United Bank (AUB)
at roundabouts 10 and 22 in
Hamad Town in the morning,
and attacked two machines in
Karbabad and Naim last night,
the Interior Ministry said.
According to reports, another
gas cylinder blast took place at
an ATM in Manama last night,
which reportedly injured a civilian.
A BBK ATM in Seef was
completely burnt down by
thugs at around 9pm. The
ground floor of a CrediMax
building was partially damaged.
Reports said an NBB ATM
on Manama’s Lulu Avenue
and a Standard Chartered Bank
ATM on Manama Government
Avenue were also targeted.
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