Kuwaiti government announced last week that it's calling elections for December 1 and would change the electoral law to "preserve national unity". In response, the opposition launched a large scale protests and demonstration in the capital, Kutait City, and other regions. Reports say tens of thousands of people took to the streets.The opposition rejected the emir's proposed changes, which allow voters to choose only one candidate per electoral district. They contended that the reform would prevent their candidates from winning the majority they won in the last vote.
-Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Research Fellow at the Department of Government, the London School of Economics and Political Science; Associate Fellow at Middle East and North Africa Program, Chatham House.
-David Roberts, Deputy Director of the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies, Qatar.
-James Rae, Fullbright Scholar and visiting professor at China Foreign Affairs University.
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