- Hadas
Hadas ( _ar. حدس; acronym:
Arabic : الحركة الدستورية الإسلامية, or Al-Haraka Al-Dostooriya Al-Islamiya or "Islamic Constitutional Movement," is a Kuwaiti Sunni Islamist Organization. It has 21 members in theNational Assembly of Kuwait in the new 2008 iteration.Hadas was established on
31 March ,1991 following the liberation ofKuwait from the Iraqi invasion in theGulf War . The group of people that started the Movement and still control it are Kuwaiti Islamists following the ideology of theMuslim Brotherhood , most notably isJassem Mohalhel .The Movement pushed candidates in all the elections for Kuwait's National Assembly starting from 1992. However, it suffered a big setback in the elections of 2003 which resulted in only two seats of the 50-seat Parliament out of 15 candidates.
This defeat forced Hadas to restructure its internal system to allow more bottom-level members to be involved in electing the leadership, which allowed a younger generation of activists in the Students' Union of the Eighties to take the lead.
In the election of
2006 , Hadas succeeded in becoming one of the largest blocs in the Assembly with 6 members. In the election of2008 , however, this number was decreased to only 3.The Current Secretary General of Hadas is
Bader Al-Nashi .External links
* [http://www.icmkw.org Hadas Web Site]
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