Another election on the horizon in Kuwait?
Issue 948
- 07 Jun 2013
| 5 minute read
On 16 June, Kuwait’s constitutional court is expected to deliver a long-awaited decision about the constitutionality of Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah’s 2012 election law. The court’s tiptoeing towards resolution of the conflict has left Kuwait watchers divided over which side is likely to prevail, though, by mid-May, a consensus seemed to be converging on the view the law would be overturned and yet more elections scheduled. Promulgated during a parliamentary interregnum in October, and ratified by the parliament it produced, the election law’s primary provision was to reduce the number of votes per voter from four to one, a radical change widely seen as favouring pro-government candidates and prompting an opposition boycott of the 1 December poll.
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