{"id":50682,"date":"2012-02-05T02:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T00:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=50682"},"modified":"2023-04-06T00:34:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T21:34:07","slug":"kuwaiti-islamist-led-opposition-wins-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/02\/05\/kuwaiti-islamist-led-opposition-wins-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwaiti Islamist-led opposition wins majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Opposition secures 34 out of 50 seats in snap parliamentary elections held after anti-corruption protests in December.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8221;]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50683 \" title=\"kuwaiti opposition\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kuwaiti-opposition.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kuwaiti-opposition.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kuwaiti-opposition-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Kuwait&#8217;s Islamist-led opposition\u00a0has won a landslide majority in snap polls,\u00a0securing 34 seats in the 50-member parliament, officials results showed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The snap polls were held after the ruler of the oil-rich Gulf state dissolved parliament following youth-led protests in December\u00a0over alleged corruption\u00a0and\u00a0bitter disputes between\u00a0opposition MPs and the government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunni Islamists took 23 seats compared with just nine in the dissolved parliament, while liberals were the big losers, winning only two places against five previously.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No women were elected, with the four female MPs of the previous parliament all losing their seats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sixty-two percent of Kuwaitis cast their ballots on Thursday, up slightly from 58 per cent in the previous election\u00a0in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Voters punished pro-government MPs, reducing them to a small minority, especially 13 former members\u00a0who were questioned by the public prosecutor over corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The opposition scored strongly in the two tribal-dominated constituencies, winning 18 of the 20 available seats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kuwait is divided into five electoral districts, with each electing 10 politicians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minority Shias, who form about 30 per cent of the native population, saw their representation reduced to seven MPs from nine, with four of them from Islamist groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The recent demonstrations against\u00a0the government\u00a0led to the resignation of the former prime minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who was later replaced by another senior member of the ruling family.<\/p>\n<p>OPEC member Kuwait has been rocked by a series of political crises over the past six years, leading to the resignation of seven governments and the dissolution of parliament on four occasions.<\/p>\n<p>www.aljazeera.com,\u00a003 Feb 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition secures 34 out of 50 seats in snap parliamentary elections held after anti-corruption protests in December. Kuwait&#8217;s Islamist-led opposition\u00a0has won a landslide majority in snap polls,\u00a0securing 34 seats in the 50-member parliament, officials results showed. 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