Sep. 30 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least two women have managed to win a seat in the Kuwaiti Parliament after the legislative elections held on Thursday, in which the opposition has taken the majority of the seats in the body.
The preliminary results indicate that Alia al Khaled and Yenan Bushehri have managed to prevail in their constituencies, after a legislature in which there was no female representation, according to the newspaper ‘The Kuwait Times’.
The opposition has managed to win 28 of the 50 seats in Parliament, which will include at least 26 new faces. Among the main winners is the opposition leader Ahmad al Saadun, who was president of the organization three times and who aspires to return to office.
Parliament was dissolved in August by the emir, Sheikh Nauaf al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabá, after more than a dozen deputies staged a protest inside the hemicycle to demand the formation of a new government.
The disputes were another episode in the usual tension between the Kuwaiti executive and legislative branches. In fact, Parliament has been dissolved several times in recent years due to disputes between the two.
Kuwait was the first country in the Gulf region to establish an elected parliament in 1963, and while it holds parliamentary elections with a degree of freedom, power remains in the hands of the ruling Al Sabá family and the emir who appoints the government.
