Kuwait fails again to swear in new cabinet
Kuwaiti lawmakers boycotted a parliament session yesterday to foil another attempt to swear in a new cabinet - a move that makes the assembly's dissolution likely and throws the US ally into more turmoil.
The dispute centres on a ruling by Kuwait's constitutional court in June that effectively dissolved a parliament dominated by opposition Islamists and reinstated its more government-friendly predecessor, elected in 2009.
Only four members of the 50-seat assembly and five ministers from the 15-member new cabinet turned up for the parliament session.
Analysts expect Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, to dissolve parliament in order to allow a new election, widely expected to be held after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ends in the second half of August.
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