Country · KW
Kuwait
الكويت כוויית0 parties on file
This country appears on the regional map; its parties are not part of the current dataset.
Timeline · 2 events
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Kuwait's emir dissolves parliament and suspends the constitution
On 10 May 2024 Emir Mishal al-Ahmad al-Sabah dissolved Kuwait's National Assembly and suspended several constitutional articles for up to four years, with the cabinet assuming some of parliament's powers, citing chronic government–parliament gridlock. The move rolled back the Gulf's most assertive elected legislature and concentrated power in the ruling family — a significant democratic regression in the region's liveliest semi-parliamentary system.
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Emir Mishal dissolves National Assembly
Kuwaiti Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad dissolved the National Assembly and suspended parts of the constitution for up to four years on 2024-05-10, ending Kuwait's tradition of a vocal elected parliament.
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- Head of state In gov
Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah مشعل الأحمد الجابر الصباح
Independent
Emir of Kuwait since December 2023. Dissolved the National Assembly in May 2024 and suspended parts of the constitution for up to four years.
- Speaker
Ahmad Abdulaziz Al-Saadoun أحمد عبد العزيز السعدون
Independent
Speaker of the Kuwait National Assembly across multiple non-consecutive terms — most recently in the 2022–2024 parliament dissolved by Emir Mishal. Veteran liberal opposition figure dating to the 1980s, repeatedly elected and repeatedly outmaneuvered by the ruling family's parliamentary dissolutions. The institutional memory of the Kuwaiti parliamentary opposition.
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Source documents · 2
All docs →- Kuwait's Emir Mishal dissolves the National Assembly and suspends parts of the constitution for up to four years (10 May 2024) 93 words
- Ahmad Al-Saadoun (veteran Speaker of Kuwait's National Assembly) — speech to the Assembly's budget session (Al-Dustour, the Assembly's official newspaper, 2 Aug 2023): reform and anti-corruption are the government's/PM's responsibility under Article 123 of the Constitution; the elected legislature presses the executive to deliver. The Kuwaiti parliamentary-oversight / anti-corruption pole. 67 words
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Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Kuwait [Country profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/KW
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Kuwait." Country profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/KW.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-country-kw,
title = {{Kuwait}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Country profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/KW},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-08-06},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.