The next National Assembly election is due in May 2013. However, if legislative paralysis returns, the emir may enact an early dissolution of parliament. Calls for the introduction of a single-constituency system or the legalisation of formal political parties will continue to be resisted by the government. Smaller tribes and sectional interests will remain disempowered by the 2006 electoral law (which reduced the number of constituencies from 25 to five). As a result, the next vote is unlikely to lead to major political change.