Rola Dashti

Who is Rola Dashti?

Rola A. Al-Dashti is a Kuwaiti government minister. She is one of the first female MPs elected in the Kuwaiti parliament. She is the minister of state planning and development affairs. Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting Kuwaiti women to run for parliamentary elections for the first time. She was the first woman to file her papers at the election department, when the registration opened, and she herself was a candidate in the 2006 parliamentary election. In the 2009 parliamentary elections, she and three other women won seats to become the first women to enter the Kuwaiti parliament.