State news: Kuwait court annuls 2022 parliamentary election

In its ruling, the court cited “controversies” in the 2020 order to dissolve Parliament for its ruling.

Officials did not immediately explain what this meant for Kuwait’s parliament. Kuwait has the most independent and functional assembly among the Gulf Arab states, but political power is still largely concentrated in the hands of the ruling Al-Sabah family, which appoints the prime minister and cabinet, and can dissolve the assembly at any time. Is.

In September, voters sent conservative Islamist figures and two women to the assembly. In the second election in less than two years. The election results were seen as a mandate for change between the cabinet and the 50-member assembly amid a long hiatus.

Kuwait’s Islamist opposition accuses the government of corruption and mismanagement, and often criticizes ministers for complicity in the misallocation of public funds.

The dispute has prevented the Assembly from passing basic economic reforms, including a public debt law that would allow the government to borrow money, despite its vast oil wealth, to increase its general reserves. The fund will decrease.

Kuwait, which borders Saudi Arabia and Iraq, has the world’s sixth-largest oil reserves and hosts about 13,500 US troops.