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This study traces and analyzes the unique and pioneering Kuwaiti democratic experience in the Gulf region, where such practice is not in vogue. It also highlights the challenges facing the Kuwaiti democratic experience as in its fifth decade of representative politics. Furthermore, the study highlights on the relationship between economic development and oil politics have altered the historical dynamics and forged shifting alliances between the Kuwaiti political system and the various political groups, and between state and society in a rentire state. The study sheds light on the 2009 Parliamentary election which took place in May 2009 following the suspension of the Kuwaiti Parliament (National Assembly) for the third time in a row following a showdown and acrimonious tension between the two branches of the political system, which has become a staple of Kuwaiti politics in the last few years. There will be analysis of the various phenomenons, realignment, alliances and the unprecedented results of the newly elected National Assembly. The study will show a detailed comparison between the composition of the new parliament and the outgoing one by using statistics and tables to illustrate the changes. Special attention will be given to the historical and unprecedented victory of four women MPs and to the demise of the organized political groups whose performance experienced a setback and especially among the Islamists. The study will question whether such retreat is an episodic one or a trend. The study concludes by providing some suggestions and recommendation to up haul the Kuwaiti political system an even to amend the Kuwaiti Constitution, in order to break out of the stagnation and the political malaise. This frustrating trend has dominated the Kuwaiti political system and has robed Kuwait's pioneering experience of much of its merits and attributions in the eyes of the Kuwaitis and those who have cherished and admired its democratic experience.
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