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Tribe Alawazm
al-awazem (Arabic: العوازم; also spelled azmi and awazm) is a large Sunni tribe of the Arabian Peninsula.
The Awazem is an influential tribe in Kuwaiti politics. The tribe has an especially strong base in the first electoral district (in the Kuwait City metropolitan area), where it forms about 14% of the voters, and the fifth electoral district (in the south of the country), where it accounts for about 21% of voters.
Six of the fifty elected parliamentarians in the Kuwait National Assembly belong to the Awazem tribe. They are Hussein Nasser Al-Huraiti, Mikhled Al-Azmi, Abdullah Al-Fahma, Fahad Al-Azmi, Jabir Al-Azmi, and Marzouq AlـHubaini Al-Azmi.[1]