MP Profile
Third Constituency
MP Fares Saad Al-Otaibi was born in 1974. He obtained Bachelor of Business Administration from Kuwait University.
He served as Financial and Administrative Monitor at Kuwait Municipality, and member of the Board of Directors in Khaitan Cooperative Society and Cooperative Societies Union.
He contested the election in 2006, but he withdrew his candidacy. He lost in the 2013 election, landing on the 17th spot with 1,153 votes. He won in 2014, ranking second in his constituency with 2,137 votes. He lost again in 2016 when he took the 15th place with 1,882 votes. He emerged victorious in 2020 and 2022 when he ranked ninth with 2,942 and 3,189 votes respectively.
Voting Record
■ Partnership Projects Law in 2014: approved
■ Cybercrimes Law in 2015: approved
■ DNA Law in 2015: approved
■ Law on disqualifying candidates convicted of offending God, Prophets (Peace Be Upon Them) or the Amiri Entity in 2016: approved
■ Grilling motion against Minister of Defense Sheikh HamadJaber AlAli in January 2022: approved
■ Grilling motion against Minister of Foreign Affairs and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Muhammad in February 2022: approved
■ Grilling motion against Minister of Public Works Ali Al-Mousa in March 2022: approved
■ Lifting the parliamentary immunity of MPs Shuaib Al-Muwaizri, Muhammad Al-Mutair, Khalid Al-Otaibi and Thamer AlSuwait: rejected
He was among the MPs who participated in the sitin at the National Assembly building and he voted in favor of the nocooperation motion against HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid.
Statement
Al-Otaibi justified his approval of the law on disqualifying candidates convicted of offending God, Prophets (Peace Be Upon Them) or the Amiri Entity; asserting “the constitutional experts at the National Assembly, and the Legal Advice and Legislation Department made sure that the law will not be enforced retroactively.
Upon seeing the erroneous enforcement of the law later, he stressed: “I have committed to submit a bill in 2020 to amend the law, but the alliance between the prime minister and the Assembly speaker disrupted deliberations on the bill.”