Emir of Kuwait dissolves parliament
- 11 May 2024
Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Sabah takes the oath at the National Assembly in Kuwait City, Kuwait. File/AP
His Highness Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait, issued on Friday evening an Emiri decree dissolving Parliament and suspending some constitutional articles for no more than four years.
Parliament, elected in early April, was to meet for the first time on Monday.
Badr al-Saif, a Kuwait University political analyst wrote on X, the former Twitter, that the Emir had taken a "historic step", only seen before in Kuwait in 1976 and 1986.
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