Popular protest wins Kuwait. Hundreds of people demonstrated in the evening of Wednesday, November 6 in front of the Kuwaiti Parliament, to protest against corruption within the institutions. The protest comes amidst popular protest movements against corruption in Lebanon and Iraq, a neighboring country of Kuwait.
Kuwaiti deputies, among the few in the region to be elected by universal suffrage, routinely denounce corruption within the government and parliament.
Protesters gathered in the capital, Kuwait, following the appeal of a former deputy, Saleh al-Moulla, launched via social networks for a vigil organized with the backing of the authorities under the slogan "That's enough ".
"An expression of the discontent of the people"
Saleh al-Moulla told reporters that the mobilization was "a popular message and an expression of the people's dissatisfaction with corruption". "Release, clear Marzouq! The Kuwaiti people do not want you!" Chanted the demonstrators against the Speaker of Parliament, Marzouq al-Ghanim, directly accused of corruption by deputies.
"We want the government to stop stealing public money and steal our dreams and ambitions," a protester, Ahmed al-Douwaihi, told AFP.
Repeated political crises
For Mohammed al-Houmaidi, a lawyer and human rights defender, the movement "is not led by any political movement, but by the people themselves who have come to express their problems of housing, health and education".
Kuwait has been shaken for more than a decade by repeated political crises involving the government, prominent figures of the ruling family and Parliament, which have been dissolved many times.
With AFP