KUWAIT CITY: A Kuwaiti lawmaker has collapsed and died during a regular parliamentary session.

The Kuwait News Agency quotes Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim as saying that lawmaker Nabil Al-Fadhl died of an unspecified medical condition during a parliamentary session.

Al-Fadhl was seen as a liberal within Kuwait’s political system, which is the most free-wheeling among the Gulf states.

He was elected to parliament in 2012.

A former Kuwait Airways pilot and columnist who wrote extensively about various political issues, he was outspoken against what he saw as regression and backwardness from some parliament members.