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| Kuwait Top Court Nullifies Parliamentary Elections | |
| 2012-06-21 | |
[An Nahar] Kuwait's constitutional court on Wednesday declared February's legislative polls in which the opposition swept to victory illegal and reinstated the previous pro-government parliament, state media said.
"The court declared that the emiri decree that called for the 2012 election was unconstitutional and ordered reinstating the previous assembly," the state-run KUNA news agency reported. Rulings by the Gulf state's highest court are final and cannot be challenged. Kuwait Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah issued a decree in early December dissolving the parliament following youth-led street protests calling for reforms and for the sacking of former prime minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah. A few days later, the emir issued another decree inviting Kuwaitis to elect a new parliament on February 2. The court ruled that the second decree was "unconstitutional," thus nullifying the results of the general elections in which the opposition scored an impressive victory. The previous parliament was controlled by a pro-government majority. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Islamists won. The eventual result would have been the kind of standoff where Iran's Mossadegh tried usurp the Shah's power back in the 50's. What Kuwait needs is a non-troglodyte electorate. Short of a Muhammad-style conquest by a foreign power and mass executions of hundreds of thousands of devout believers accompanied by a renounce Islam-or-die policy, it's hard to see how the Kuwaiti populace will self-moderate. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2012-06-21 15:37 |