The Popular Action Bloc ( ar, كتلة العمل الشعبي) is a political bloc in

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...

headed by veteran former Speaker

Ahmed Al-Sadoun Ahmed Abdulaziz al-Sadoun ( ar, أحمد عبدالعزيز السعدون) (born 1934) is the Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly from October 2022. He was previously the speaker from 1985 to 1999 and from February 2012 until it was declar ...

. The group focuses on populist issues like housing, salary raises, and reform.

Expulsion of Shiite MPs

On 19 February 2008, the Popular Action Bloc expelled Shiite MPs Ahmed Lari and

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 Mughniyah. The ceremony's description of the fugitive Lebanese militant – killed in a 12 February

car bombing A car bomb, bus bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles. Car bombs can be roughly divided ...

in Syria – as a hero sparked public outrage in a country that holds him responsible for hijacking a Kuwait Airways flight and killing two of its Kuwaiti passengers 20 years ago. 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.

Electoral history

National Assembly elections

References

{{Kuwaiti political parties 1992 establishments in Kuwait Political parties established in 1992 Political parties in Kuwait Kuwaiti nationalism