Report: Parliamentary Polls to be Likely Held under 1960 Law

The political and parliamentary blocs have told their members that the upcoming parliamentary elections will likely be held under the controversial 1960 electoral law due to failure to agree on a new law, a media report said.

“Failure to reach a new electoral law will allow a return to the 1960 law, which enjoys the support of most political forces, although they are publicly claiming the opposite,” Kuwaiti daily al-Seyassah quoted “credible parliamentary sources” as saying in remarks published Sunday.

“The disagreements over the new law are still huge and there is no consensus on anything, which will lead to endorsing the 1960 law as an only choice after approving a several-month technical extension of parliament's term in order to avoid vacuum,” the sources said.