2009 Kuwaiti general election

None Early general elections were held in Kuwait on 16 May 2009,http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=Nzk5NDA5MjY1 Stimulus decree comes in effect 2009-04-07 2009-05-17 Kuwait Times https://web.archive.org/web/20120213213011/http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=Nzk5NDA5MjY1 2012-02-13 dead the country's third within three years. Kuwait had voted on six occasions between 1991 and 2009. The turnout rate was 50%.Kuwait May 2009 The election was notable in that four women were elected for the first time since Kuwait gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1961. Background The Constitutional Court dissolved the National Assembly of Kuwait on 18 March 2009 over accusations of supposed abuse of democracy and threats to political stability. The government had resigned just two days before to evade questioning in parliament.http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=24591 The Media Line 2009-03-19 2009-05-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20090522182155/http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=24591 dead http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7946232.stm Kuwaiti government resigns again 2009-03-16 2009-05-17 BBC News Suggested solutions to this recurring problem (government resignation) include the formation of a government without any members of the royal family (a so-called "popular government"), thus making the possibility of parliamentary questioning a reality, or appointing the crown prince as PM, which would make parliamentary questioning sufficiently unlikely so that it would not be a problem any more.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7954741.stm Does Kuwait need a political revamp? 2009-03-21 2009-05-17 BBC News Candidates 210 candidates contested the election for the 50 National Assembly seats. 16 were female.http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/17/kuwait.women.elections/ Women win parliamentary seats for first time in Kuwait 2009-05-17 2009-05-17 CNN Results The results were announced on 17 May 2009. Liberals won at least 8 seats while Independent candidates won 20 seats. The four women who won the elections were the first women ever to be elected to Kuwait's parliament.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8053088.stm Kuwait votes for first female MPs 2009-05-17 2009-05-17 BBC News Aseel al-Awadhi and Rola Dashti were victors in the third district. Also winning were Massouma al-Mubarak and Salwa al-Jassar. When voting was first introduced in Kuwait in 1985, Kuwaiti women had the right to vote.2001 African Women and Children: Crisis and Response Greenwood Publishing Group https://archive.org/details/africanwomenchil00rwom registration 8 Apollo Rwomire 9780275962180 This right was later removed. Women in Kuwait were later re-granted the right to vote and stand in parliamentary and local elections in May 2005. Sunni Islamists won 10 fewer seats than they had held in the 2008 elections.Kuwait - Majles al-Ommah (National Assembly) - Elections in 2009 International Parliamentary Union 2009 http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2171_09.htm 2012-02-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20130227070358/http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2171_09.htm 2013-02-27 live Tribal candidates 20 Sunni candidates 11 Shiite candidates 9 Liberals 8 Others 2 384790 IFES References Kuwait Category:Elections in Kuwait Election Category:May 2009 in Asia