Kuwait sets June 6 as the date for legislative elections

Agencies – Kuwait:

The Kuwaiti Cabinet, in its extraordinary meeting held at Bayan Palace, approved a draft decree inviting voters to elect members of the National Assembly, on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, and submitted it to the Crown Prince.

The National Assembly, the elected “Parliament” in 2020, which was reinstated by the Constitutional Court in March, was dissolved by an Emiri decree, and the return to the people; to select its representatives again.

And the Kuwaiti official agency said that the Council of Ministers decided to suspend work in all ministries, government agencies and public institutions, on polling day, and consider it a day of rest.

Crown Prince Sheikh Mishaal Al-Ahmad had announced, in a speech he delivered on behalf of the Emir last April, that the National Assembly would be dissolved, and new general elections would be held in the coming months, and he promised in his speech that he would accompany the stage of dissolving the National Assembly by issuing a set of political reforms. and legal… to move the state to a new stage of discipline and legal reference; To prevent disagreement, and to prevent all kinds of abuse of power by the legislative and executive authorities, and to ensure the impartiality and integrity of the judicial authority by strengthening the governance system in its composition and competencies.

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