Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Showdown Threatens Democracy In Kuwait

From The Financial Times:

The government of Kuwait resigned yesterday to head off a parliamentary interrogation of the prime minister, putting a state-led rescue of the stock market and the future of democracy in the oil-rich Gulf state in doubt.

Three Islamist members of the national assembly formally requested that the parliament question Sheikh Nasser Muhammed Ahmed al-Sabah on alleged government mismanagement and the admittance of a controversial Shia cleric to Kuwait.

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