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KUWAIT CITY, Feb 9: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim on Tuesday traveled to Doha, Qatar for an official twoday visit in response to the invitation of Qatar’s Shura Council Chairman Ahmed bin Abdullah Al-Mahmoud.
During the visit, Al-Ghanim will meet His Highness the Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani to verbally convey the message of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. He will also meet with his Qatari counterpart. Among those who bid farewell to Al-Ghanim upon departure were acting Speaker MP Farz Al-Daihani, interim Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Mubarak Al-Harees, Ambassador of Qatar to Kuwait Bandar Muhammad Al-Atiya and acting Secretary-General of the Assembly Adel Al-Lughani.
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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 26: MP Osama Al-Shaheen submitted a bill to amend Law No. 2/2016 on the establishment of Kuwait Anti- Corruption Authority (Nazaha) in order to obligate the prime minister, ministers, National Assembly speaker and MPs to submit their financial disclosures to Nazaha and make them available to the citizens.
MP Osama Al-Shaheen Al-Shaheen pointed out that the current law obligates the abovementioned individuals to submit their financial disclosures in sealed envelopes to Nazaha and the contents can be revealed only if requested by the judicial authority in case the relevant individual is subjected to investigation. He said the bill aims to provide citizens with facts about the financial status of the prime minister, ministers, Assembly speaker and MPs for citizens to follow up and question them any time.
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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 24: The Budgets and Final Accounts Committee in the National Assembly on Sunday met with representatives of the Foreign Affairs Ministry. However, Committee Rapporteur MP Badr Al-Dahoum disclosed the meeting was inconclusive because the officials who represented the ministry are not high ranking as needed.
He pointed out the committee expected interim Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Nasser Al-Muhammad or Deputy Minister Khalid Al-Jarallah to represent the ministry, but they did not attend the meeting. He said the committee will not hold meetings under the interim government without the acting minister or undersecretary.
In another development, MP Osama Al-Shaheen criticized the call of some parties to allow liquor for personal consumption under the pretext that the liquor ban increased the number of drug addicts. He stressed that liquor is strictly prohibited as per the Islamic Sharia and Kuwaiti laws.
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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 17: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim invited the MPs and government to the ordinary parliamentary sessions slated for Jan 19-20, 2021.
The agenda of these sessions include approval of the minutes of the previous session, complaints and petitions, incoming letters, and grilling motion filed by MPs Badr Al-Dahoum, Khalid Al-Otaibi and Thamer Al-Suwait against HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid.
The grilling motion consists of three points – violation of the Constitution due to lack of commitment to the parliamentary election results in forming the government, government’s domination over the formation of parliamentary committees and Assembly Office, and violation of Article 98 of the Constitution. This article states that “upon formation, every ministry shall submit its program to the Assembly and the Assembly may express whatever comments it deems appropriate thereon.”