Public Pressure: Kuwait govt resigns

The government resigned over corruption allegations.

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s prime minister and his government resigned on Monday in response to escalating demands by protesters and opposition deputies that he step down over corruption allegations. The oil-producing state has tolerated criticism of its government to a degree rare among its Gulf neighbours, helping to insulate it from the protest-driven political tumult that has helped topple four Arab leaders this year. But tensions rose sharply this month when opposition lawmakers and protesters stormed parliament to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 29^th, 2011.