Kuwait Times, Thursday, Dec 31, 2020 | Jamadi Al Awwal 16, 1442
Amir, Crown Prince urge MPs to cooperate with the government
Kuwait:
HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and HH the Crown
Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah separately received members of
the new National Assembly office at Bayan Palace yesterday, headed by Speaker
Marzouq Al-Ghanem. The Amir and Crown Prince urged cooperation between the
Assembly and the government and called for strengthening democracy, respecting
the constitution and implementing the law.
Present at the meeting along with Ghanem were Deputy Speaker Ahmad Al-Shuhoumi,
Assembly Secretary Farz Al-Daihani, Assembly Supervisor Osama Al-Shaheen, head
of the legislative and legal affairs committee Khaled Al-Enezi, head of the
financial and economic affairs committee Ahmad Al-Hamad, head of the priorities
committee Hesham Al-Saleh and Assembly Secretary General Allam Al-Kandari.
Meanwhile, 18 MPs yesterday submitted a new motion calling for setting up a
parliamentary committee to investigate events at the opening session of the new
Assembly, with the motion insisting that a series of constitutional, legal and
moral violations had been committed. The motion calls on the investigation
committee to probe the behavior of a section of the invited public, their
insults of MPs and causing chaos. It also wants the panel to investigate
employees at the Assembly secretariat to find how unofficial ballot papers for
the speaker’s election reached the hands of some MPs.
Also, MP Abdulkarim Al-Kandari submitted a draft law calling to organize the
functions and the status of the chamber of commerce and industry. The bill calls
to ban the chamber from interfering in politics and providing any aid to local
or foreign political groups. Kandari wrote on Twitter that when politics
interferes in commerce, “our funds will be at risk”, adding that when a section
of merchants benefits by crushing the middle class, “all citizens and the
country will be at risk”.