AMMAN — In a significant turn of events, the opposition
emerged victorious in
Kuwait's parliamentary elections held on Tuesday,
securing a majority of seats in the country's 17th Parliament.
اضافة اعلان
According to a local media outlet, opposition MPs garnered
nearly 80 percent of the vote, while women managed to retain only one seat in
the
Kuwaiti Assembly.
Polling process
The polling process to elect members of the 17th
Kuwaiti National Assembly began on Tuesday morning, marking the second parliamentary
election in a span of just nine months.
A total of 207 candidates, including 17 women, vied for 50
seats, with the number of voters reaching an impressive 793,646. In order to
ensure citizens could fully exercise their electoral rights, work in government
departments was suspended for the day.
The
voting process lasted for 12 hours and followed the
single electoral vote system, as reported by the official Kuwait News Agency.
Once the polls closed, the official results were announced, revealing the
winners who would form the new assembly for the next four years.
Kuwait had scheduled the new parliamentary elections, named
"
Nation 2023," for June 6, following the dissolution of the elected
parliament in 2020. The dissolution came after disagreements between the
executive and legislative branches, prompting an
Amiri decree last May.
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