KUWAIT CITY, July 3: As part of ongoing attacks on the government by the so-called opposition about its intention to amend the election law, MP Musallam Al-Barrak issued a statement Tuesday warning not to violate the electoral system saying if such a thing happened Kuwaitis will be compelled to take to the streets to demonstrate peacefully.

In attacks directed at the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Al-Barrak said, “The citizens who toppled the shameful and disgraced Parliament are waiting for a quick decision by you to dissolve the 2009 Parliament so as not to pollute the political arena more.”

He said hidden forces are putting pressure to tamper with the election constituencies or the electoral system by reducing the right of voters from four votes to two.

This is tantamount to stealing the right of the voter which will lead to a confrontation between the government and citizens. “This will benefit only the saboteurs and embezzlers of public funds,” he added.
Al-Barrak argued it is only in emergency situations that a decree can be issued to override laws. “But at this moment we don’t see any emergency situation in the existing election law which was passed by lawmakers and ratified by HH the Amir, unless there are those out there who want to implement their corrupt agenda to topple the opposition and honorary MPs.”

In a related issue, parliamentary sources disclosed members of the so-called majority bloc in the nullified 2012 Parliament have reached a final agreement on contesting the next parliamentary elections in the form of lists, whereby each constituency will include two lists, except the First Constituency which will have only one list.

The source added this agreement was based on the current five constituency system and the same number of votes. He added in this respect, the bloc has also agreed to pre-empt the threat from the government to change the constituency pattern or the number of votes for each person so that they can implement these lists.

According to a reliable source, the majority has agreed to distribute the lists as follows: The list for the First Constituency includes former MPs Osama Al-Shaheen, Adel Al-Damkhi, Abdullah Al-Turaiji, and Mohammed Al-Kandari.

The Second Constituency includes two lists — the first has the names of three candidates and the fourth name is to be decided later — they are Jamaan Al-Harbash, Hamad Al-Matar and Abdul-Rahman Al-Anjari. The second list includes Khaled Al-Sultan, Abdul-Latif Al-Amiri and Riyadh Al-Adsani.

In the Third Constituency, the first list includes Ahmed Al-Saadoun, Shaye Al-Shaye, and Mohammed Al-Dalal and second Faisal Al-Mislem, Waleed Al-Tabtabaei, Ammar Al-Ajmi, and Faisal Al-Yahya.
The Fourth Constituency also has two lists — the first has the names of Mohammed Hayef, Osama Al-Munawer, Mohammed Al-Hatlani and Mubarak Al-Wa’alan, and the second includes Musallam Al-Barrak, Ali Al-Deqbasi Mohammed Al-Khalifa and Obaid Al-Wasmi.

In the Fifth Constituency there are 10 candidates from the majority bloc, so an agreement was reached to exclude the names of MPs Falah Al-Sawagh and Khaled Al-Tahous to allow them to run as independents.

The first list consists of Salem Al-Namlan, Badr Al-Dahoum, Ahmed Mutei and Munawer Naka Al-Azmi. The second list includes Saifi Mubarak Al-Saifi, Abdullah Al-Bargash, Khaled Shukhair and Nayef Al-Mirdas.

In another development MP Daifallah Buramiya disclosed some influential people are putting pressure on the judiciary to release former MP Mohammed Al-Juwaihel who was recently sentenced to two years imprisonment. The verdict was upheld by the Court of Appeals.

Al-Juwaihel was last Thursday arrested by CID men to force him to complete his two-year jail term in a libel lawsuit filed against him by former MP Daifallah Buramiya.

Buramiya wondered how these influential people try to put pressure on the judiciary for the release of the person that was seen on TV by all people across the country insulting him.

“It’s the reputation of the judiciary. If they are subjected to verbal abuse and defamation, will they accept to help the wrongdoer and try to protect him from justice?” he lamented.

He said he chose to resort to the law, hoping the law will restore his right because Al-Juwaihel had distorted his reputation and the reputation of his family.