Two employees of poll candidate, 4 others arrested for vote buying

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Number of candidates for upcoming elections reaches 376

KUWAIT CITY, Sept 10: State Security officers have arrested two employees at the campaign center of a First Constituency candidate, along with four voters, for buying votes at a price of KD900 each. Rumor has it that the candidate is former Deputy National Assembly Speaker Ahmed Al-Shohoumi, who vehemently denied the allegation and warned that he will file a case against those spreading such false information. Meanwhile, the number of candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections reached 376, including 42 members of the previous Assembly; while seven decided not to run for the elections as follows: Adnan Abdulsamad and Abdullah Al-Turaiji in the First Constituency, former Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim and Salman Al- Azmi in the Second Constituency, Yousef Al-Fadalah in the Third Constituency, Soud Bu Sleeb in the Fourth Constituency and Nasser Al-Dousari in the Fifth Constituency. The number of new candidates totaled 294, in addition to 82 former MPs and ministers.

Strong
Former MP Hassan Jawhar is one of the strong candidates in the First Constituency. He was born in Kuwait in 1960. He obtained a Doctorate Degree in Political Science from Florida University. He is the only Shiite MP who won in all seven elections he contested. He won four elections in a row since 1996 when he ran in the Eighth Constituency in Hawally under the 25 constituencies system.

also emerged victorious in the elections in 2008, 2009 and 2020. He took first place in his constituency in 2002 with 5,849 votes. Jawhar filed two grilling motions against HH the former Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid in 2020 — one of which was with former MPs Mehalhal Al-Mudaf and Muhannad Al-Sayer and the other was with former MPs Muhannad Al-Sayer and Khalid Al-Otaibi. He was a member of the opposition.

He supported the grilling motions against former Minister of Defense Sheikh Hamad Al-Ali in January 2022, former Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al- Muhammad in February 2022, and former Minister of Public Works and State Minister for Youth Affairs Ali Al-Mousa. He was once quoted as saying that respecting the freedom of citizens must be the top priority of the new government. He added it is totally unacceptable to arrest individuals for participating in a sit-in, considering the Constitution guarantees this right. By Saeed Mahmoud Saleh Arab Times Staff

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