Kuwait parliamentary election has brought a new exclusion of women from the 50-seat parliament after none of the 23 women candidates, including the four incumbents, could secure enough votes to win, even though women made up around 54 per cent of the voting bloc. Social media users spent the first hours after the announcement...
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The newly-elected Kuwaiti parliament will not complete its full term, analysts have predicted after Islamists made unprecedented gains. Islamists, including Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists and independent candidates won 22 out of the 50 seats in parliament in what one analyst described as a “soft Arab Spring”. “Tribalism and Islamism have proven that they are undisputedly...
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Kuwait has become the fourth Arab country in as many months to see overwhelming gains for Islamists and dismal losses for liberals in parliamentary elections. It also saw a new exclusion of women from the 50-seat parliament after none of the 23 women candidates, including the four incumbents, could secure enough votes to win...
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Hamas has no plans to set up an office in Qatar, the head of its government in Gaza has said. “We have no intention to open an office in Doha,” Esmail Haniyeh. “All of Doha is an office for our movement thanks to the love and cordiality that the Qatari leaders have provided for...
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Timeline – Kuwaiti women: Four decades of struggle for political empowerment
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The first steps to draft Kuwait’s constitution, the oldest in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), were made in 1961 by Emir Shaikh Abdullah Al Salim Al Sabah. Newly independent Kuwait sought to confirm it had the accoutrements necessary for the development of the modern sovereign state, especially that threats were lurking.
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Dissolutions of Kuwait’s parliament 1976 (August 29): The Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah dissolves parliament. The parliament was elected on January 27, 1975. Khalid Saleh Al Ghunaim was the Speaker.
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Kuwaitis will go to the polls on February 2 to elect the 14th parliament in their country’s history. Kuwaiti’s parliament is seen as one of the most sustained democratic experiments in the Arab world.
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They are smart, ambitious and vivacious. And they have strong hearts determined to build on past successes to elevate Kuwaiti women into the national mainstream. In the West, women running for high office inevitably draw comparisons with the Iron Lady image of Margaret Thatcher. Kuwaiti women contesting elections have to be twice as tough.
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Kuwait’s urgent matters court on Wednesday refused to bar controversial candidate Mohammad Al Juwaihal from running in the parliamentary elections, Al Watan reported on its website. A case had been filed by Mohammad Munawar, a lawyer, against the candidate whose “derogatory” remarks against another candidate and his tribe on Monday evening resulted in clashes...
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