Kuwait Times, Tuesday, Sep 8, 2020 | Muharram 20, 1442
Assembly holds sessions for budgets, no-confidence votes
Kuwait:
The National Assembly is set to hold sessions today and tomorrow to
discuss budgetary matters relating to government spending, Speaker Marzouq Ali
Al-Ghanem announced. Another session will be held on Thursday for voting on
no-confidence motions against the ministers of interior and education, Ghanem
said in a statement at Abdullah Al-Salem Hall on Sunday.
Ghanem has stated that the first two sessions will be for discussing budgetary
reports and accounts of independent, legislative authorities in addition to
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and its subsidiaries. Moreover, the National
Assembly speaker said the first two sessions would also cover financial issues
of ministries, government sectors and would witness a presentation by the
Minister of Finance on the country’s fiscal conditions.
If today and tomorrow’s sessions cannot be finished, they will be prolonged to
Thursday following the vote of no-confidence on Deputy Prime Minister, Minister
of Interior and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh and Minister
of Education and Higher Education Saud Al-Harbi. Ghanem announced on September 1
that a session would be held on September 10 for no-confidence votes against the
two ministers, after two motions filed by 10 MPs each following the debate of
the two ministers’ respective grillings.