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By A Saleh
KUWAIT: MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei has urged leaders of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to turn the council into a confederation. In a tweet, Tabtabaei said that in view of threats and major challenges, GCC leaders have to turn it into a confederation in which each state has its own domestic political system, with joint foreign affairs and defense policies. Tabtabaei also said he would support any consensus candidate for the speakership, be it Shuaib Al-Mowaizri or Abdullah Al-Roumi. He also noted that he would support any decision taken by the committee formed during the MP Mohammad Al-Mutair’s Diwan meeting.
In addition, Tabtabaei urged the government to immediately issue a general amnesty for all political opinion prisoners, especially “the freedom fighter Musallam Al-Barrak”, as he described him, because “he and honest people like him should not be in jail”. Moreover, Tabtabaei stressed that the reappointment of ministers accused of financial or administrative violations will not be accepted and that the parliament would hold some officials at the investment authority accountable for favoring some employees and paying them four times as much as others.
© Kuwait Times 2016
