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  • n  a legal system for making democratic choices
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  • Kuwait court orders dissolution of parliament, new elections
    By Sylvia Westall and Mahmoud Harby KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's top court ordered the dissolution of parliament on Sunday and called for fresh elections, a ruling likely to herald fresh political volatility in the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state. The Constitutional Court made its ruling after throwing out opposition challenges to changes to the electoral system decreed by the emir, hereditary ruler ...
    June 16, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
  • Kuwait says it will not tolerate protests against court ruling
    KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait warned on Friday that it would not allow any unlicensed protest marches over a court ruling next week which will say whether a new electoral system introduced by the country's ruler is constitutional. Ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah used emergency powers in October last year to change voting rules, six weeks before the major oil producer was due to hold ...
    June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

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