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Majority of Arabs believe Bahrain's promise to reform

06 Feb 2012

A majority of Arabs claim to have confidence in Bahrain's government to carry out promised refoms in the wake of protests in the Gulf Kingdom in 2011, according to the latest Doha Debates opinion poll.

The findings are in sharp contrast to the views of the audience at the December Doha Debate where 78 percent of the audience gave the government a vote of no confidence on its promise to reform.

Not surprisingly, the opinion  poll which surveyed 1,008 people in the GCC, North Africa and the Levant, found most support for the government in neighbouring Gulf states.

Sixty percent of those polled in the GCC claim they were against the public protests in Bahrain and 41 percent from the region believe the Bahraini government's crackdown of the public demonstrations was 'the right thing to do'. 

 

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