Ahmed Lari is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the first district. Born in 1955, Lari studied Statistics and worked in the Municipal Council before being elected to the National Assembly in 2006. While political parties are technically illegal in Kuwait, Lari is a member of the

National Islamic Alliance The National Islamic Alliance ( ar, التحالف الوطني الإسلامي) is a Shia political organization in Kuwait. Of the fifty elected members of Kuwait National Assembly in 2008, two belong to the National Islamic Alliance: Adnan Zah ...

, a

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, mo ...

party.

Expulsion from Popular Action Bloc

On February 19, 2008, the

Popular Action Bloc The Popular Action Bloc ( ar, كتلة العمل الشعبي) is a political bloc in Kuwait headed by veteran former Speaker Ahmed Al-Sadoun. The group focuses on populist issues like housing, salary raises, and reform. Expulsion of Shiite MPs ...

expelled Lari and fellow Shiite MP

Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad was a former member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the first district. Born in 1950, Abdulsamad studied political science and worked in the Oil Ministry before being elected to the National Assembly in 1981 ...

for taking part in a ceremony eulogizing Hezbollah's slain top commander, Imad Mughniyeh. The ceremony's description of the fugitive Lebanese militant — killed in a February 12 car bombing in Syria — as a hero sparked public outrage in a country that holds him responsible for hijacking a

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flight and killing two of its Kuwaiti passengers 20 years prior. The two lawmakers were only expelled from their bloc, and remained in the legislature. After the expulsions of the two, the seven member bloc was down to five members.

Opposition to Grilling of Prime Minister Nasser

In November 2008, Waleed Al-Tabtabaie, Mohammed Al-Mutair, and Mohammed Hayef Al-Mutairi filed a request to grill Prime Minister Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah for allowing prominent Iranian Shiite cleric Mohammad Baqir al-Fali to enter Kuwait despite a legal ban. Lari was quoted as saying that the majority of MPs, like him, were against the grilling.

References

Members of the National Assembly (Kuwait) Living people Kuwaiti Shia Muslims Kuwaiti people of Iranian descent Popular Action Bloc politicians National Islamic Alliance politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Kuwait-politician-stub