The National Assembly Office, Monday, called for a special session on June 14 to tackle the issue of retirees.

This will be followed by several sessions discussing budgets, final accounts for ministries and governmental bodies, as well as the financial status of the country, Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim told reporters.

The parliament is coordinating with the government to hold the retirees’ session, Al-Ghanim added.

The parliamentary financial and economic affairs committee ended its report, and is currently working on reforms, he indicated.

“The retirees’ issue is an urgent matter, related to extremely important segment of the society whom their interests were delayed for a long period of time”, he affirmed. “The parliaments is not holding sessions lately due to the status of the government nature of merely handling urgent matters, nevertheless urgent issues should be discussed at the parliament”, he said.

Source: Kuwait News Agency