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Kuwait Court Annuls Membership of MP for Insulting Emir

Kuwait Court Annuls Membership of MP for Insulting Emir
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Kuwait Court Annuls Membership of MP for Insulting Emir

Kuwait Court Annuls Membership of MP for Insulting Emir

Kuwait's Constitutional Court annulled on Sunday the membership of MP Bader Zayed Al-Dahoum for insulting the Emir.

By-elections in the Fifth Constituency to fill in his vacant seat, a court ruling said, according to the state news agency KUNA.

The court, chaired by justice Mohammad bin Naji, ruled in favor of a law suit contesting parliamentary membership of Al-Dahoum thus annulled his membership as a representative of the Fifth Constituency.

By-elections would be held to fill in the vacant seat.

Al-Dahoum was elected to the National Assembly during last year’s elections.

The court found him guilty of insulting the Emir on June 8, 2014.

In 2016, he was disqualified from contesting the Assembly polls by the interior ministry. The exclusion was upheld by the administrative court at its three levels.

In last year’s polls, the interior ministry again disqualified him from contesting, reported the Kuwait Times.

The lower court supported the decision, but the courts of appeals and cassation overturned the decision and allowed him to run, it added.

Several opposition MPs condemned the decision to annul al-Dahoum’s membership

MP Hamdan al-Azemi announced that he would take on from al-Dahoum the request to debrief Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Hamad al-Sabah. Al-Dahoum and MP Mohammed al-Mutair had both sought to grill the MP.

Several opposition lawmakers also demanded an amendment of the constitutional court law to “end the meddling with the will of the people.”

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