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HCAC 2008 Election hcaconline.org | American Nurses Association - 2008 Election Action Center nursingworld.org | from Jason Stone: Election 2008... jasonstonefitness.com | AAO-HNS Election Results 2008 otolaryngologyheadandneck... |
An early parliamentary election was held in Kuwait on 17 May 2008 after the Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dissolved the National Assembly of Kuwait on 19 March 2008 over constant clashes between the government and the elected MPs.[1] The last elections were held less than two years previously and saw a loose alliance of reformists and Islamists gain almost two thirds of the seats.[2] 361,685 Kuwaitis were eligible to vote, more than half of them women; 27 of the 275 candidates were women.[3][4] None of the female candidates won.[5] New rules introduced for this election have changed the 25 constituencies electing two to five electing 10. This was a demand of the reformist Kuwaiti Orange Movement, which led mass demonstrations in 2006, who believed the change would impede vote buying electoral frauds.[6] A leading theme in the election was inflation, which hit a record high 9.5% four months before the election. Many candidates in the election proposed increased governmental subsidies to be funded by oil profits.[7] [edit] Results
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