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Saleh Ashour
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “member of the kuwaiti national assembly”. Today it says “former member of the kuwaiti national assembly who represented constituency one from 1999 until 2020 and again”.
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Saleh Ashour is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly , representing the first district . Born in 1952 in Kuwait, Ashour studied economics and served in the Kuwaiti Air Force before being elected to the National Assembly in 1999. While political parties are technically illegal in Kuwait, Ashour affiliates with the Justice and Peace Alliance , a Shia party.1
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “member of the kuwaiti national assembly”. Today it says “former member of the kuwaiti national assembly who represented constituency one from 1999 until 2020 and again”. Read the current article and compare.
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member of the kuwaiti national assembly
Now
former member of the kuwaiti national assembly who represented constituency one from 1999 until 2020 and again
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