Kuwait parliament meets to discuss Amiri inaugural speech, lifting immunity on MPs

Kuwait National Assembly convenes Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the Amiri speech delivered at the inauguration of the parliament and requests to lift immunity of MPs Obaid Al-Mutairi and Hamed Al-Bathali.

The parliament members will also discuss election of the members of the Arab Parliament in addition to filling vacant seats of some of the National Assembly’s committees.

The lawmakers will be discussing requests to form committees to investigate distribution of industrial lots, food insecurity and obstacles facing local agricultural products, and retirees.

They will also debate reports about final statements of government departments for fiscal years 2011-16 and 2018-20, in addition to replacing the word maid with domestic worker.

The house will then discuss a request to the Constitutional Court to clarify Articles 87, 90, 104 and 106 of the Constitution, and assigning State Audit Bureau to investigate alleged violations in a contract to purchase Eurofighter Typhoon.

Source: Kuwait News Agency

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