{"id":2713,"date":"2011-08-17T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T02:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2011-08-17T19:04:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T02:04:12","slug":"bahrain-largest-shiite-opposition-seeks-reform-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain largest Shiite opposition seeks reform referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bahrain Shiite opposition seeks reform referendum<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>The head of Bahrain&#8217;s main Shiite Muslim opposition party wants a referendum over whether the Gulf kingdom&#8217;s rulers should retain their wide powers.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press  MANAMA, Bahrain \u2014  The head of Bahrain&#8217;s main Shiite Muslim opposition party wants a referendum over whether the Gulf kingdom&#8217;s rulers should retain their wide powers.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal by Ali Salman seeks to increase pressure for broader reconciliation efforts. Salman told reporters Wednesday the proposed referendum would ask whether the tiny island nation&#8217;s government should be elected or remain appointed by the leaders.  It&#8217;s seen highly unlikely that Bahrain&#8217;s Sunni monarchy would allow such a vote, after months of crackdowns against Shiite-led protests demanding greater rights.<\/p>\n<p>Salman&#8217;s Al Wefaq party has broken off talks with Bahrain&#8217;s rulers and plans to boycott parliament elections next month.  Mass protests led by Bahrain&#8217;s majority Shiites began in February, inspired by other Arab uprisings.  <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2015933237_apmlbahrain.html?\">&#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%3D2713&amp;text=Bahrain+largest+Shiite+opposition+seeks+reform+referendum&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain Shiite opposition seeks reform referendum The Associated Press The head of Bahrain&#8217;s main Shiite Muslim opposition party wants a referendum over whether the Gulf kingdom&#8217;s rulers should retain their wide powers. The Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain \u2014 The head of Bahrain&#8217;s main Shiite Muslim opposition party wants a referendum over whether the Gulf kingdom&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=2713#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1443],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713"}],"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=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}