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In other election news … breakthrough for female representation in Kuwait

Last week Kuwait’s 50-seat Parliament was up for election and, for the first time, the victors include women. Four of the sixteen female candidates who stood were elected, including Massouma al-Mubarak who has been the path-breaking female politician of Kuwait.

Back in 2005, when women were given the right to vote and to stand for Parliament, she didn’t become a Member of Parliament herself, but did become the first female Cabinet minister. She served in the Cabinet in more than one role, resigned as health minister after a hospital fire in 2005 killed two people, accepting ‘political and moral’ responsibility even …

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