KUWAIT STRESSES JOINT ACTION IN FIGHT ON TERROR Unity, corruption key poll concerns

By Abubakar A. Ibrahim

Arab Times Staff

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 24: Forty-one parliamentary hopefuls, including one woman, filed their candidacies for the 2016 National Assembly elections on the sixth day of the registration period.

The number of those who will contest the elections should have totaled 292 on Monday but one of the candidates who registered earlier has opted out of the electoral race so the total is now down to 291.

Following are the candidates who registered on the sixth day per constituency:

First Constituency (eight candidates) — Jalal Hussein Al-Koub, Abdullah Yousif AlRoumi, Abdul-Mutalib Bahbahani, Ali Ahmed Hussein, Ali Abdul-Razak Taqqi, Ali Abdul-Rasoul Al-Qatan, Mohammed Abdul-Amir Al-Haddad and Nawaf Suleiman Al-Fazei

Second Constituency (six candidates) — Anwar Jawad Bukhamseen, Ahned Ibrahim Al-Khamees, Ali Jawad AlSayegh, Omar Abdul-Mohsen

Al-Tabtabaei, Faisal Faihan Al-Otaibi and Yousef Rashid Al-Al-Muzen

Third Constituency (five candidates) — Osama Yousif Al-Tahous, Amani Jalil Al-Saleh, Fahad Abdullah AlTammar, Faisal Shaheen Al-Hamadi and Nasser Mohammed Al-Ajmi

Fourth Constituency (12 candidates) — Sultan Jadan Al-Shumiri, Suleiman Saud Al-saeed, Saif Rashid Al-Mutairi, Ayed Bajas Al-Barazi, Abdullah Fahad Al-Anazi, Abdullah Mazouk Al-Adwani, Lafi Hamoud Al-Mutairi, Mutab Lahab Al-Mutairi, Mohammed Duhaim Al-Zufairi, Mishal Hussein Al-Mutairi, Mansour Khalaf Al-Elaj and Naif Abdullah Al-Daihani

Fifth Constituency (10 candidates) — Bader Ali Al-Azmi, Hassan Saad Al-Azmi, Talal Saad Al-Sahli, Atif Mohammed Al-Azmi, Abdullah Zaid Al-Azmi, Ali Abdul-Hadi Al-Muri, Mohammed Ali Al-Azmi, Matar Salem Al-Azmi, Nasser Bader Baqer and Anwar Ramadan Dashti

Amani Al-Saleh, the only female candidate who registered Sunday, said in a press statement after filing her candidacy that the previous Parliament adopted resolutions deemed insulting to the people of Kuwait. She then stressed the need for the next Parlia(KIA),

ment to ratify laws in the interest of the people.

She asserted the economic situation is difficult and there is no censorship on retailers or properties. She added, “We need to settle debts with Kuwaiti traders and impose property tax in order to control prices.”

She also emphasized the significance of addressing a number of issues concerning women, such as treating them as equal to men in granting housing loans.