National Issues
Two contentious issues, leading to six different elections between 1991–2008, involve issues pertaining to the electoral process and involvement of the ruling family in the government .
Accusations have been mounted that the government has fixed elections and that corrupt candidates, with friendly ties to the ruling family, buy their way into the parliament. The exclusion of women from the electoral process, prior to 2005, the minimum voting age of 21 and the fact that parties are still illegal, are also frequent points of contention
The Prime Minister has always been from the ruling family. The more liberal MPs generally distrust the political power of the ruling family, whereas the Independents and Islamists tend to see the family as a source of tradition, order and clan allegiance .
The Constitution does not allow the parliament to dismiss the Prime Minister directly, but does allow them to issue an indirect no-confidence vote and call the Prime Minister to hear and have to answer to public criticism of his policies . Such things would be illegal in other Gulf States and are seen, by the more conservative-traditionalist factions, as being beyond the pale .
It is possible that the future government will either not have anyone from the ruling family in it or that the Prime Minister will be the likely future king.
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