Sheikh, Chairman of the Shoura (Consultative) Council, has questioned the contribution of the domed chamber's backbenchers and asked for ways to be found to involve them more in the Council's debates. Aal Al-Sheikh heard during the Shoura's session on Monday Council member Yousuf Al-Maimani express his dismay at his distant seating position in the chamber which he said did not give him and his colleagues in the vicinity the chance to take part in debates. Aal Al-Sheikh responded by likening the situation to a school. “In the last year and a half since the beginning of the Shoura's fifth term we have not felt a large presence in debates from those seated at the back,” he said. “It's just like a school classroom!” Aal Al-Sheikh asked that the issue be addressed after the Shoura's summer holidays.
