[1] However, in June 2012 the Constitutional Court declared the elections invalid and reinstated the former parliament.
[2] In response, opposition MPs resigned from parliament and demanded a full parliamentary system.
Emir Sabah Al-Sabah dissolved the National Assembly of Kuwait on 7 December 2011 citing "deteriorating conditions" amid an increasingly bitter political showdown over alleged high-level corruption.
[4] A group of former government parliamentarians sued to reverse the dissolution, stating that the act was unconstitutional.
of wanting to share power with the ruling family, which he said would lead Kuwait into a state of chaos.