| Kuwait |
This article is part of the series: |
|
|
|
Other subjects
|
|
Other countries · Atlas |
The Popular Action Bloc (Arabic: التكتل الشعبي)is a political bloc in Kuwait headed by veteran former Speaker Ahmed Al-Sadoun. The group focuses on populist issues like housing and salary raise, and reform. Of the fifty elected members of Kuwait National Assembly, four belong to the Popular Action Bloc: Marzouq AlـHubaini Al-Azmi, Mubarak Al-Mutairi, Musallam AlـBarrak, and party leader Ahmed Al-Sadoun.[1]
On February 19, 2008, the Popular Action Bloc expelled Shiite MPs Ahmed Lari and Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad for taking part in a ceremony eulogizing Hezbollah's slain top commander, Imad Mughniyeh. The ceremony's description of the fugitive Lebanese militant — killed in a February 12 car bombing in Syria — as a hero sparked public outrage in a country that holds him responsible for hijacking a Kuwait Airways flight and killing two of its Kuwaiti passengers 20 years ago. The two lawmakers were only expelled from their bloc and remained in the legislature. After the expulsions of the two, the seven member bloc was down to five members.[2]
|
||||||||