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Some people have money to burn, and Kuwait has proved that by letting off $15 million worth of fireworks to mark the country’s 50th Anniversary. The display has now entered the record books.
"I am happy to verify that with 77,282 fireworks, a new Guinness world record has been set tonight", a Guinness World Records representative announced in Kuwait at the end of the show. The firework performance took place along the shoreline of Kuwait City watched by tens of thousands of people.
The constitution was proclaimed on November 11 1962 by the late emir Sheikh Abdullah al-Salem al-Sabah, making Kuwait the first Arab country in the Persian Gulf to get a constitution and have a parliament.
The current ruler opened the display calling for national unity during a time of tough political crisis in the country. In his televised speech he reminded the people of the government's determined commitment to democracy.
Even though the constitution was introduced in 1962 the Gulf state has gone through troubling times. The parliament has been dissolved nine times, and the freezing of several articles of the constitution stopped the work of parliament for 11 years in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s the country was invaded by Iraq, which led to the first Gulf War.
The country’s opposition marked the anniversary with a massive anti-governmental rally in the city center. The protest was stages after the Emir ordered an amendment to the electoral law, which the opposition claims is against the constitution and allows the manipulation of December’s parliamentary elections.
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