Kuwaiti parliamentarians sign petition against appointing woman minister
Kuwait, Politics, 6/15/2005

Ten Kuwaiti Islamists parliamentarians signed a petition of protest against appointing a woman in the post of Minister in the current government.

The Islamists parliamentarian Faisal al-Muslim said that this petition is considered a first step towards submitting this case to the constitutional court in the country. Those confirm that Masouma al-Mubarak who became on Sunday the first woman minister in the history of Kuwait, is unqualified constitutionally and legally for this post because she did not register herself in the list of voters in the elections which took place in February.

The media spokesman for the Islamist parliamentarian Deif Allah Abu Ramia who collected signatures on the petition of protest said that this petition will be officially submitted next week.

For her part, the new minister said that "the law students at universities know that registration in the electors lists is not necessary," while the Kuwaiti prime minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah stressed that appointing minister al-Mubarak is legal and that the law was applied properly.

Al-Mubarak, a graduate of one American university and the activist in human rights field, was appointed in the post of the minister of planning and a minister of state for administrative planning affairs, but she did not get her missions officially waiting for the consent of the Amir of Kuwait Jabber al-Ahmad al-Sabah or his deputy Fahd al-Sabah on the appointment decision. The consent is just a formality.

She expected that the crown prince will issue the final consent on her appointment after leaving the hospital to which he was admitted on June 9th following an increase in blood pressure and diabetic level.

Woman getting the post of a minister in Kuwait has become possible after the Kuwaiti Ummah council ( parliament ) approve in May to offer woman the right to vote and to be nominated to legislative elections.

Woman in Kuwait reached high ranking posts in education, oil companies and the diplomatic field, but still so far, they are apart from the political field because of the former elections law which forbade them from working in this field.

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