Arab Barometer’s survey came at a time during which
Kuwait suffered from severe domestic developments, the most prominent of
which was the change in political leadership at the level of the head of state,
as Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad died and was replaced by his brother Sheikh
Meshaal Al-Ahmad. This meant, among other things, imposing new choices for
the position of crown prince, and swinging in a state of instability reflected in
the choices of the prime minister. This was reflected also in the nature of other
political interactions, which ended with the dissolution of the National Assembly
(Parliament) on May 10, 2024, after the completion of the survey. Many of
the opinions observed in the survey predicted what happened later, or were
indicative of the degree of popular acceptance of radical measures such as dissolving
the National Assembly and freezing some articles of the constitution,
which we will address in some detail below, as these political crises are linked
to the responses observed through the survey.
