All blocs and independent MPs who are part of the opposition group of 35 MPs were asked to submit their proposals within two days to the coordination committee which will finalize the issues before Thursday, said Dallal, who hosted the opposition meeting attended by 33 MPs.
The coordination committee comprises of MPs Jamaan Al-Harbash, Musallam Al-Barrak, Waleed Al-Tabtabaei, Ammar Al-Ajmi, Bader Al-Dahoom, Adel Al-Damkhi and Abdullatif Al-Ameeri, who represent various groups making up the opposition.
Dallal said the discussions also focused on political reforms and the youth-sponsored Kuwait charter 2012 that has already been adopted by MP Faisal Al-Yahya, considered the youth’s representative in the Assembly.
The opposition also agreed to submit proposals to form two parliamentary probe committees into the corruption scandal involving former MPs and the allegations that the former prime minister transferred public funds into his private foreign bank accounts.
About 11 former and two current MPs were interrogated by the public prosecution ahead of the parliamentary elections over allegations that their bank accounts accepted millions of dinars of illegal deposits.
Opposition lawmakers have also alleged that the former prime minister transferred millions of dollars of public funds into his foreign bank accounts. The previous government denied any wrongdoing and insisted that the money was repaid.
Dallal also said the opposition is likely to propose forming a third investigation committee into diesel smuggling operations and a fourth to probe why the audiovisual law has not been properly implemented on local television stations.
Meanwhile, three youth groups sent a strong-worded letter to the opposition majority urging them to take action to secure the release of dozens of youths in connection with the storming of Al-Watan TV and the burning of MP Mohammad Al-Juwaihel’s election tent just two days before the Feb 2 elections.
The youth groups threatened that they will organize a sit-in inside the National Assembly building from Feb 28 when the Assembly is due to hold its next session.
Dallal said the opposition discussed the issue and saw there was some double standards in dealing with the arrested youth. On his part, MP Yahya said he has adopted the youth charter which calls among other things for amending preventive detention rules.
Separately, MPs of the Salafist Islamic Alliance yesterday submitted 11 draft laws, one of which calls for the abolishing and banning of bank interest or what is known as usury under Islamic law.
Other bills call for building labour towns, disclosure of wealth, preventing clashes of interests, establishing a public authority for the prevention of drugs and establishing a national development fund.
In another development, two lawyers yesterday filed a petition challenging the election of MP Nabeel Al-Fadl on accusation that he had been handed with too many court rulings over his controversial writings.
The petition was submitted to the constitutional court which has so far received as many as 34 petitions against the election results in almost all the five constituencies.
The ruling of the constitutional court on the election results is final as it cannot be challenged. Also, Islamist MP Mohammad Hayef demanded in a question to the interior minister to provide the detailed results of the general elections including the detailed distribution of votes.
