{"id":12398,"date":"2011-11-17T17:03:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=12398"},"modified":"2011-11-17T17:03:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T13:03:34","slug":"news-analysis-kuwait-parliament-stormed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/news-analysis-kuwait-parliament-stormed\/","title":{"rendered":"News Analysis: Kuwait Parliament Stormed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kuwait.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12399\" title=\"kuwait\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kuwait-e1321534992300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><strong>What&#8217;s the Story?<\/strong> Dozens of protestors stormed the Kuwaiti parliament late on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Another &#8216;Arab Revolution&#8217;?\u00a0<\/strong> Not quite, it was more of a &#8216;making a point&#8217; occupation rather than a &#8216;storming the Bastille&#8217; type move.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And the point they were making was?<\/strong> They would like to see the Prime Minister, Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah, decide to &#8216;spend more time with his family&#8217;, as the political cliche goes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what actually happened?<\/strong>\u00a0 The demonstrators broke open the gates to the parliament building and managed to enter the main chamber, where they sang the national anthem and then left a short time later.\u00a0 As the crowd returned to the square outside, the protesters outside shouted: &#8220;The people want to bring down the head (of government),&#8221; Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was this a one off demonstration<\/strong>? No, pressure has been increasing over the past few months over claims by the opposition of corruption and perceived attempts to roll back political freedoms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Could this be the prelude to an Egyptian or Tunisian style uprising?<\/strong> Unlikely as Kuwaiti citizens generally do very nicely thank you, particularly with the generous welfare system that prevails.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But worth keeping an eye on developments?<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely, if there is one thing we&#8217;ve learned over the past year in the Arab world it&#8217;s that anything is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following months of protests outside the Kuwaiti parliament the lid finally came off and a group of protestors stormed the gates. What does this mean?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,83,186,60,482,893],"tags":[125,18315,9799,4159,2204,2633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}