Kuwaiti Parliamentary Election: Date TBD

[NewYorkExpress]

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kuwaits-crown-prince-dissolves-parliament-calls-elections-85554863

Kuwait's crown prince on Wednesday dissolved Parliament and called for early elections, a move to ease government gridlock that has bred popular opposition and paralyzed the tiny country for months.

In his televised national address, the 81-year-old Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmed Al Jaber said that while the ruling family respected Kuwait's constitution that grants the country's rowdy parliament more power than elsewhere in the autocratic region of Persian Gulf sheikhdoms, popular dissatisfaction over the deepening dysfunction compelled the emir to intervene.

“Our goal with this constitutional solution is the firm and sincere desire for the people themselves to have the final say in the process of correcting the political course anew by choosing who represents the right choice," said Sheikh Meshal, who assumed most of the emir's responsibilities last year.

A date for legislative elections was not immediately announced.

Any experts on Kuwaiti politics who can tell us what to expect here?

[NewYorkExpress]

Parliament was officially dissolved, and elections will be held in the next two months.

[Estrella]

Basically, Kuwait has reached peak oil production and everyone is starting to realize that the current system of using oil money to pay for... everything can't continue forever. There have been some vague reforms to try and create an actual economy and tax system, and liberalize some of the more medieval laws relating to the monarchy, Islamic social norms and such.

All Gulf monarchies are faced with similar problems, but unlike, say, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait doesn't have a MBS who can do whatever he wants. The government does not answer to the legislature and the two have constantly clashed. There have been four cabinets since the last election, none of which seem to have accomplished anything other than bickering. Several ministers have also resigned in response to questioning about misuse of oil funds - y'know, the usual stuff. For six weeks now, opposition MPs have been staging a sit-in in the legislature and this was probably the last straw.