KUWAIT IS THE SECOND ARAB DEMOCRACY

  • 01/02/2021

Kuwait City; Data from the V-DEM INSTITUTE , which specializes in the status of democracies globally, which is included in the Corruption Perceptions Index, showed Kuwait's progress in 2020 to rank 106th in the world out of 179 countries, after it was ranked 111 in 2019, thus becoming Kuwait occupies The second place in the Arab world for the first time after Tunisia, which is ranked 41 in the world . The "democracies" of the countries of the world are evaluated based on 71 factors such as freedom of expression, freedom to join political parties or currents, and the government's protection of freedoms, among others. Although Kuwait advances 7 ranks in the Corruption Perceptions Index for the year 2020, it still ranks last and the lowest among the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, but it shares this ranking and score with Bahrain .

The World Justice Project, which seeks to enforce the law around the world, notes that exposing the existing corruption without any punishment for the corrupt helps its spread in a very large way, and the failure to account for those responsible for this phenomenon may be a major reason for delaying Kuwait's regional ranking in the Perceptions Index Corruption.

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