Kuwaitis demand dissolution of parliament

Kuwaitis have staged a demonstration in the Persian Gulf country to demand dissolution of the parliament.

The protest rally was staged in the capital Kuwait City on Wednesday, AFP reported.

On Sunday, demonstrators staged a similar protest rally in the streets of Sabah al-Nasser, a predominantly tribal area just southwest of the city.

The parliament was elected on December 1, 2012 in general polls, with a voter turnout of about 40 percent.

Since then, the opposition has been staging protests to demand that the new parliament be dissolved and the changes made to the electoral law be reversed.

Kuwait was the first Arab state in the Persian Gulf to establish an elected parliament in 1962.