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"In other developed countries nationals tend to get those posts, but in Bahrain it is always expatriates.
This is far from true - for a very long period the CEO position was taken by a GCC national from the (then) owner states; the last Expats were of course J Hogan, [interim Bahrani], Andre Dose (very short tenure), Bjorn Naff and now Majali. Prior to Hogan a Bahraini was the CEO. Hence there have been significantly more 'locals' in the leadership role than expats, certainly over the last 25-30 years. And I am not so sure that all the majors consistently have their own nationals at the front either - BA certainly hasn't/had't for quite some time. Maybe the MP's need a little education on this matter before making such erroneous statements.