The Kuwait Constitutional Court issued on Wednesday a ruling that could see two lawmakers stripped of their membership at the National Assembly.
MPs Jamaan al-Harbash and Waleed al-Tabtabai are involved in the 2011 storming of the parliament after lawmakers were prevented from questioning then prime minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah.
They were tried and sentenced for that last year, but had already left Kuwait. In October, parliament defied the government and voted to keep on the pair, who have a large political following.
The court ruled that the article requiring a vote to strip legislators of membership was “unconstitutional”, state news agency KUNA reported.
There was no immediate reaction to the ruling from either of the two lawmakers. Kuwait’s highest court in July reduced their jail terms to 3-1/2 years from an original five.
