{"id":10123,"date":"2012-05-23T08:37:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T15:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10123"},"modified":"2012-05-23T08:37:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T15:37:53","slug":"kuwait-cabinet-boycotts-parliment-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=10123","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Cabinet boycotts Parliment – crisis deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kuwait’s cabinet boycotts parliament as crisis grows<\/strong>
\n23 May, 2012 – Al Akhbar<\/p>\n

Kuwait’s cabinet on Wednesday boycotted parliament for a second day as MPs accused the government of plotting to dissolve the opposition-controlled house.<\/p>\n

The government and opposition are at loggerheads over two requests to question Finance Minister Mustafa al-Shamali over alleged financial and administrative irregularities.<\/p>\n

The government insisted on Tuesday that the two grillings must be debated separately while the opposition, which has a majority in parliament, wants to merge the two and have a single debate.<\/p>\n

When the opposition insisted on a vote to resolve the dispute, all government ministers led by Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah, in power for the past six months, walked out of the session.<\/p>\n

The government ministers failed to attend parliament on Wednesday, forcing the cancellation of the session because under Kuwait law parliament sessions are illegal if no ministers attend.<\/p>\n

MP Jamaan al-Harbash told reporters the opposition agreed that the two grillings be discussed separately on the same day but the government turned down the concession.<\/p>\n

“This is proof that the government wants to escape from the debate…in a bid to prevent exposing serious embezzlements, violations and corruption,” charged Harbash, an Islamist opposition lawmaker.<\/p>\n

Adel al-Damkhi, another Islamist opposition MP, warned that the government boycott was the prelude to dissolving parliament which was elected just over three months ago.<\/p>\n

“The government is preparing the Kuwaiti people to dissolve parliament,” he said.<\/p>\n

MP Mubarak al-Waalan claimed the government move was an attempt to “cover up and rescue corrupt officials.”<\/p>\n

But Information Minister Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Sabah said the government was still extending its hands of cooperation to MPs provided that laws were not violated.<\/p>\n

The finance minister is accused of wide-ranging violations in his ministry and several departments under him, including the oil-rich emirate’s sovereign wealth fund. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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