KUWAIT CITY, Oct 29: Opposition MPs are currently finalizing two grilling requests against HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mo-hammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, reports Al-Anba daily quoting sources.
A group of MPs, who have announced their plan to boycott the parliamentary sessions, have identified the lawmakers who will meet HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on a yet-to-be specified date to discuss the interpellations. This came in a meeting at the diwaniya of MP Mohammad Al-Mutair Saturday. Sources revealed the group is also having talks with MPs from the First Constituency to convince them to join the group.

Meanwhile, ministerial sources said the government has received a recommendation from a governmental legal team to refer the grilling submitted by MPs Dr Faisal Al-Muslim, Musallam Al-Barrak and Khaled Al-Tahous against the prime minister to the Legislative Affairs Committee. Sources confirmed the government is confident in its ability to secure the required majority support to remove the grilling submitted by MPs Ahmad Al-Saadoun and Abdulrahman Al-Anjari from the agenda of the Parliament based on the recent ruling of the Constitutional Court.

Meanwhile, the law on providing housing for Kuwaiti women must be amended to ensure justice for all, reports Al-Seyassah daily quoting MP Maasouma Al-Mubarak.

Al-Mubarak pointed out the housing minister has confirmed the government is serious in its bid to increase the housing loan offered to Kuwaiti women from KD 45,000 to KD 75,000.  She said the minister stressed the government will not approve the proposal to increase the loan to KD 100,000 due to budgetary constraints.

In another development, Al-Mubarak affirmed new rules have been issued to make it easier for Kuwaiti women married to non-Kuwaitis to apply for the residency of their husbands and children.  However, she said the officials at the General Immigration Department and Passports Affairs have failed to apply the new regulations due to their lack of understanding of the law.