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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Ahmed Hagagy and Lisa Barrington

Kuwaitis go to the polls again in bid to shift political crisis

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view taken with a drone shows Kuwait National Assembly building in Kuwait City, Kuwait October 7, 2020. REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee

Kuwait on Tuesday holds its second legislative election in nine months in a bid to resolve a grinding political crisis that has seen parliament repeatedly dissolved and reinstated, hindering economic reforms.

Feuding between the OPEC member state's appointed government and elected parliament has hampered fiscal reform, including passing a debt law that allows Kuwait to tap international markets and address a heavy reliance on oil.

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