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The 2024 Kuwaiti National Assembly (commonly known as Majlis 2024) is the 18th legislative session of the National Assembly.Members were elected on April 4, 2024, and the first session was held on April 17, 2024.
The National Assembly is the legislature in Kuwait, established in 1963. [4] Its predecessor, the 1938 National Assembly, was formally dissolved in 1939 after "one member, Sulaiman al-Adasani, in possession of a letter, signed by other Assembly members, addressed to Iraq's King Ghazi, requesting Kuwait's immediate incorporation into Iraq."
On 22 June 2016 parliament passed a law banning any citizen who had insulted the emir from running, [8] resulting in several major opposition figures including Musallam Al-Barrak becoming ineligible candidates. All registered candidates need to pay a registration fee of fifty Kuwaiti dinars (about US$162.50).
The legislature in Kuwait wields more influence than similar bodies in other Gulf monarchies, and political deadlock has for decades led to cabinet reshuffles and dissolutions of parliament.
Kuwait's emir on Thursday dissolved parliament after a lawmaker reportedly insulted the ruler, the latest dissolution to strike the oil-rich nation's legislature amid years of political gridlock.
Kuwait's emir again dissolved the small, oil-rich country's parliament Friday, citing the political deadlock that has prevailed in recent years. Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Jaber made the ...
This law allowed private companies to develop new residential areas in Kuwait in order to solve the housing crisis. [14] On July 14, parliament added housewives to the governmental Afiya medical insurance. [15] On August 1, parliament passed the “High Electoral Commission” law. The commission will organize future general elections.
Kuwait formed a new government on Monday after the previous Cabinet was dissolved following the third parliamentary elections in three years amid infighting that has paralyzed the country's ...