Khalifa Al Dhahrani

Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Dhahrani (Arabic: خليفة بن أحمد الظهراني; born 1942) is a Bahraini politician, who served as Speaker of the Council of Representatives of Bahrain.

[2] Al Dhahrani's political career began when he ran for and was elected as a member of Bahrain's first National Assembly in 1973.

[2] He served as MP until 1975, when the emir of Bahrain Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa dissolved parliament.

He was one of the architects who drew up the National Action Charter of Bahrain in 2001, which led to the end of political unrest that plagued the country in the 1990s.

Al Dhahrani ran as a candidate in the ninth district of the Central Governorate and was elected to parliament, having secured a landslide victory, after winning 90% of the vote.