Aseel al-Awadhi

Al-Awadhi first stood for a seat on the National Assembly in 2008, losing the election but gaining the highest number of votes for a female candidate since women were allowed to stand.

[2] Al-Awadhi first stood in the 2008 general election as part of the National Democratic Alliance.

[3] As the first Kuwaiti women in parliament, Rola Dashti and Al-Awadhi did not wear the hijab when they took their seats as MPs in the National Assembly in 2008.

In 2009, Kuwait's top court officially ruled that veiling is optional for Kuwaiti women MPs in parliament.

[5] She chose to boycott the December 2012 election in protest of the decision to reduce the number of votes per person from four to one.