The first democratic experience in Kuwait 1938-1939

This study aims to identify the most important stages that the Kuwaiti parliament has known and experienced, the brakes and failure factors it faced, and then the prospects that await this promising democratic experience. The importance of focusing on the Kuwaiti experience and studying the main sites that shaped its course stems from the fact that the State of Kuwait adopted a parliamentary democratic system before the other Arab Gulf countries, and that the first seeds of this system were planted in it during the previous independence period, which was then strengthened independently and increased its effectiveness and dynamism. Perhaps the year 1921 was the beginning of the first democratic elections in Kuwait, when the first legislative elections were held in Kuwait to select the members of the Kuwaiti Legislative Council in 1938, but the late Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Ahmed Al-Jaber Al Mubarak Al-Sabah dissolved the committee in 1939. The experience of the Kuwaiti Parliament did not reappear until 1962, after gaining independence, because a second legislative election was held in 1962, which strengthened the second Kuwaiti Legislative Council (the Constituent Assembly) consisting of (20) members, which was later known as the National Assembly.