The Kuwaiti cabinet on Saturday amended a controversial electoral law and set a December 1 date for snap polls, sparking angry opposition calls for demonstrations. "The cabinet approved the amendment of article 2 of the electoral law to change the voting system ... and approved a decree to invite voters to elect a new national assembly on December 1," it said in a statement.
The snap polls are the second this year and the fifth since mid-2006 as parliament has repeatedly been dissolved due to political disputes. "I call on every Kuwaiti to tear the December 1 paper from the calendar and throw it in the dustbin. It is a black day in Kuwait's political history," said opposition leader and former MP Mussallam al-Barrak on Twitter.