MANAMA, Bahrain: In a show of support to opposition demands for constitutional reforms, thousands of Bahrainis marched south of Manama giving the elected parliament more teeth in the third such demonstration in as many months.

“We object to the fact that legislative (powers) are not confined to the elected parliament,” Ibrahim Sharif, head of the leftist National Democratic Action Association, told the protesters who raised banners demanding constitutional reforms.

The demonstrators rallied in Hamad City south of the Bahraini capital, the third street protest called by four allied opposition groups - the main political formation of Bahrain's Shia Muslim majority the Islamic National Accord Association (INAA), the National Democratic Action Association, the pan-Arabist Nationalist Democratic Rally, and the Shia Islamic Action Association - since late March.