A report citing an NAB insider said that the bloc’s members are likely to abstain from the vote, leaving the number of MPs planning to back the motion unlikely to even reach 20; to be passed such a motion requires backing from at least 25 parliamentarians.
So far, 18 MPs are said to be voting in favor of withdrawing cooperation from the prime minister, including four members each from the Popular Action Bloc and the Development Reform Bloc, in addition to the National Action Bloc’s Abdurrahman Al-Anjari, and independent MPs Mohammad Hayef, Mohammad Al-Mutair, Nadji Al-Abdulhadi, Khalid Al-Sultan, Shuwaib Al-Muwaizri, Salem Al-Namlan, Daifullah Buramya, Mubarak Al-Waalan and Saifi Al-Saifi.
The grilling was presented by Hayef and Al-Waalan, along with the DRB’s Dr. Walid Al-Tabtabaei, based on allegations that the Kuwaiti government is favoring Iran’s foreign policies at the expense of Kuwait’s fellow Gulf Cooperation Council member states.
Despite all this, however, both Al-Tabtabaei and Hayef seem confident that public seminars to be held ahead of Thursday’s session will be effective in garnering other MPs’ support for the non-cooperation motion, with the former insisting that there is a "good chance" that the number of backers for the motion will exceed 20, while the latter was even more optimistic, insisting that the motion supporters are capable of securing 25 votes.
Separately, the two lawmakers acknowledged a decision by Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Sabah to allow Kuwait’s Syrian residents to finalize visitor visa transactions which were put on hold following a previous decision. This came as MP Dr. Jamaan Al-Harbash called on the cabinet to "approve the demands of 28 MPs" who called for severing diplomatic ties between Kuwait and the Syrian government.
Meanwhile, outspoken oppositionist MP Musallam Al-Barrak said that a new grilling motion which his Popular Action Bloc intends to file against HH the Prime Minister will center on recent State Audit Bureau reports, as well as unfulfilled court rulings. Al-Barrak further asserted in a recent statement that anti-government MPs have resorted to taking part in public demonstrations "because MPs have become unable to practice their constitutional rights inside the parliament building."
