Member State of the Arab League Early general elections were held in Kuwait on 16 May 2009,[1] the country's third in a three-year period.
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.
[5][6] 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.
Women in Kuwait were later re-granted the right to vote and stand in parliamentary and local elections in May 2005.