18 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Crown Prince of Kuwait, Meshal al Ahmad al Sabá, has announced that the Parliament recently restored by the Constitutional Court will be dissolved again and has anticipated that there will be legislative elections in the coming months, in the midst of the serious political crisis in which it finds itself. engulfed the Asian country.
The Prime Minister of Kuwait, Ahmad Nauaf al Sabá, unveiled a new government on April 9 after the Constitutional Court ordered the annulment of the 2022 legislative elections in March and ordered the restoration of the composition of the previous chamber.
However, the Kuwaiti crown prince has indicated that the emir, Nauaf al Ahmed al Sabá, has decided to “dissolve the 2020 National Assembly, restored by the Constitutional Court” and “call general elections in the coming months”, according to the Kuwaiti state news agency, KUNA.
The crown prince, who has read a statement signed by the emir -who has transferred most of the executive functions to him-, has maintained that the dissolution of Parliament is part of the “popular will” and has opted for new elections and “legal and political reforms”.
The 2022 elections were marked by outstanding victories for opposition candidates, Islamists among them, and the consolidation of formations such as the Islamic Constitutional Movement, the Kuwaiti affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most important Islamist organizations in the world.
This tug of war is one more episode of the usual tension between the Kuwaiti executive and legislative branches in a country that has granted Parliament more important powers than other of its neighbors. The latest political crisis has led, for example, to delays in the approval of a state budget for the 2022/2023 fiscal year and other economic reforms.
