One political insider has predicted that there may shortly be a limited cabinet reshuffle, envisaging that prominent local media figure Sami Al-Nisf may be promoted to the information minister’s post, reported Al-Rai. The insider
said that MPs who support Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah’s grilling over his performance in the information minister’s post are currently "holding fire" in anticipation of the rumored reshuffle.
Meanwhile, rules created prior to the establishment of the constitution remain valid as long as they do not conflict with the constitutional regulations, according to a senior Kuwaiti academic discussing the current controversy over the country’s Chamber of Commerce.
Speaking in an interview broadcast on Al-Watan TV, Dr. Obaid Al-Wasmi, a professor of procedural law at Kuwait University, suggested that there is a procedural flaw in the chamber’s governing regulations, which came about as a result of the law in force at the time of its establishment three years before the introduction of the constitution.
The prominent academic said that the laws governing the Chamber of Commerce became legal as per the customary rules after the procedures carried out prior to their introduction.
Dr. Al-Wasmi also indicated that a law which conflicted with subsequent legislation could be annulled, reported Al-Watan. He also described the ministers’ responses to questions from MP Dr. Hassan Jowhar about the issue as "political answers," asserting that the failure of four ministers to take responsibility for providing satisfactory responses to the MP’s queries was politically unacceptable.
The professor also called for a parliamentary question to be submitted to His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah, asking the premier to specify which body has the right to monitor and audit the Chamber of Commerce’s activities, as laid out in the 1959 legislation governing it.
Dr. Al-Wasmi also explained that, from the constitutional viewpoint, the Ministry of Commerce is responsible for the Chamber of Commerce.
