Hikmat: It is Necessary to Assess the Reforms
Tahir Hikmat, member of the Board of Trustees of the Bahrain
Institute for Political Development, described the political arena
in Bahrain as ‘lively’. He also said that there is an increasingly
positive political atmosphere that coincided with the period of
political reform, which in his view needs careful assessment. Hikmat
also believes that the activity of the opposition also needs to
be reviewed. He also said that ‘the future does not look gloomy
in Bahrain since Bahrain is able to develop its democratic experience
in the long-term and might surpass all other Arab countries’.
In a lecture entitled ‘Opposition within Democracy’ Hikmat added
that there are numerous problems facing the opposition, including:
inability to unite and agree on future strategies, the absence of
a practical and intellectual approach, absence of a realistic assessment
for development and reform, being affected by pre-judgmental methods,
adopting classical slogans in order to skip stages and lastly confusion
between political, sectarian, ethnic and tribal issues.
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