In June the Constitutional Court nullified [JURIST report] the latest parliamentary election based on procedural flaws. The court held that the new parliament [official website, in Arabic] was unconstitutional and that the 2009 parliament should be reinstated. It came only two days after Kuwait's ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] suspended [NYT report] the parliament for a month in response to escalating tensions between the more liberal, western-backed lawmakers and the Islamist-led lawmakers. The tension grew when two cabinet ministers resigned under the pressure of the Islamist-led lawmakers who tried to gain more seats. A similar ruling took place a week earlier when the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt [official website] dissolved [JURIST report] the Egyptian Parliament [official websites] because it found that one-third of the parliament's members were elected illegally. The court, by invalidating the entire parliament, affirmed the lower court's decision of February [JURIST report] when the High Administrative Court of Egypt ruled that voting system used in the recent parliamentary election was unconstitutional.