Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem affirmed that the crisis of "comprehensive amnesty" proposals is contrived and aimed at "creating imaginary heroes."
He told reporters today, Monday, in the National Assembly that "the final decision will be for the parliament regardless of the position of the Parliamentary Legislative Committee."
The crisis mainly relates to divergent positions regarding proposals for a general amnesty law for dozens of former lawmakers and activists, who were sentenced to prison terms to storm the Kuwaiti parliament building in 2011 to demand political and constitutional reforms.
Last January, the Parliamentary Legislative Committee approved the Comprehensive Amnesty Law, after merging three proposals. The first included amnesty for those convicted of entering the parliament, who are political activists and former deputies, and the second pardon for former Shiite MP Abdel-Hamid Dashti, who was sentenced in absentia by several provisions of 65 years due to Abuse of the Kuwaiti government and Gulf countries, in addition to a third proposal to pardon the "Abdali cell" that was arrested in August 2015 and that belongs to the Lebanese Hezbollah, as announced by the Kuwaiti authorities at that time.
Al-Ghanem said today that merging the committee "does not mean anything in front of the council's decision, and whoever creates a problem in this matter is not sincere and creates fake cases."
He believed that there was no majority for approval of the proposal, and said that "if a weak majority is approved, it may be rejected by the government."