Bahrain Government - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Official name: State of Bahrain

Type: traditional monarchy; independent since 1971

Capital: Manama

Legal system, based on Islamic law and English common law, constitution w ent into effect in December 1973

National holiday: 16 December

Branches: Amir rules with help of a Cabinet led by Prime Minister; Amir dissolved the National Assembly in August 1975 and suspended the constitutional provision for election of the Assembly, independent judiciary

Government leader: Isa bin Sulman Al KHALIFA, Amir (since November 1961)

Suffrage: none

Political parties and pressure groups: political parties prohibited; several small, clandestine leftist and Shfa fundamentalist groups are active

Communists: negligible

Me mber of: Arab League, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), GCC, IBRD, ICAO, IDB—Islamic Development Bank ILO, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, ITU, NAM, OAPEC, O1C, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO

NOTE: The information regarding Bahrain on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Bahrain 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Bahrain 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.