{"id":20539,"date":"2014-08-18T15:44:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T21:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20539"},"modified":"2014-08-18T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T21:44:28","slug":"contractual-constitution-latest-in-rhetorical-spin-from-bahrains-reformist-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20539","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Contractual Constitution&#8217;, latest in rhetorical spin from Bahrain&#8217;s Reformist Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain opposition: A contractual constitution is a necessity to end the political crisis in Bahrain<\/strong><br \/>\n18 aug. 2014 &#8211; ABNA<\/p>\n<p>The national democratic opposition parties in Bahrain staged a mass rally on Friday August 15th , 2014 marking Bahrain\u2019s independence day anniversary from British mandate in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>The national democratic opposition parties in Bahrain staged a mass rally on Friday August 15th , 2014 marking  Bahrain\u2019s independence day anniversary from British mandate in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>In the final communiqu\u00e9, the opposition parties called for a contractual constitution laid freely by the people to put an end to the political crisis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe continuous arrests  against dissidents, expulsion, punishment for calling for democracy clearly violates freedom of expression\u201d the opposition parties said.<\/p>\n<p>The national opposition parties stress that the current political crisis has led to many setbacks in the national economy, ignited sectarian strife between citizens  as many citizens have  chosen to flee Bahrain because of  the regime\u2019s  policy of nourishing  the culture of impunity, encouraging more abuses to take place against human rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe need for  contractual constitution is so essential in Bahrain to enable the people to be the source of all powers\u201d, they added, \u201d the people must be able to elect their own government and their own  legislative power through fair elections, to form their independent judicial system\u201d,  they stressed<\/p>\n<p>Finally, they emphasized that the popular movement will continue to take to streets until all legitimate demands of the people are fully realized.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abna.ir\/english\/service\/bahrain\/archive\/2014\/08\/18\/631878\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D20539&amp;text=%27Contractual+Constitution%27%2C+latest+in+rhetorical+spin+from+Bahrain%27s+Reformist+Wing&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain opposition: A contractual constitution is a necessity to end the political crisis in Bahrain 18 aug. 2014 &#8211; ABNA The national democratic opposition parties in Bahrain staged a mass rally on Friday August 15th , 2014 marking Bahrain\u2019s independence day anniversary from British mandate in 1971. The national democratic opposition parties in Bahrain staged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20539#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1062],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20540,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20539\/revisions\/20540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}