KUWAIT
CITY —
The
Kuwaiti government on Sunday called a legislative election for September
29, the state news agency said, two months after parliament was dissolved amid simmering
political tensions.
The only Gulf state with a fully elected
legislature, the key oil producer has been hit by regular feuding between the
ruling Al-Sabah family and the assembly.
The current government was formed at the
start of August after the previous cabinet resigned in April, just three months
after being sworn in.
That came amid growing disputes between that
cabinet and opposition MPs, who had won nearly half the seats in the
legislature during the previous election in December 2020.
The opposition has regularly accused
ministers from the royal family of mismanagement and corruption.
Crown Prince Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber
Al-Sabah dissolved the assembly in June after opposition lawmakers staged an
eight-day strike in the legislature.
An official decree, reported by the KUNA
news agency, said nominations were now open for candidates to register ahead of
the September vote.
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