“We have decided to quiz the prime minister and the motion will be filed on Sunday,” Al-Harbash told reporters following a meeting of the opposition lawmakers.
The meeting came after the elite special forces on Wednesday used batons to beat up participants and MPs at a public rally west of Kuwait City. Al Arabiya television said some Parliament members were among those injured outside the home of Al-Harbash where a crowd had gathered to attend an opposition forum.
Footage carried by Al-Jazeera television showed riot police using batons to push back a group of opposition members.
“This was an outrage unprecedented in Kuwait’s political history. There was a deliberate will to beat the opposition physically,” Al-Harbash told the television.
Medics and witnesses said at least five people were injured, while local media on Thursday put the number of those hurt at 14, including four lawmakers. The rally was the second in a series of opposition protests against an alleged “government plot” to amend the 1962 constitution, which made Kuwait the first Arab state in the Gulf to embrace parliamentary democracy.
The new wave of protests came as opposition MPs charged that the government and its supporters were trying to undermine the status of the constitution in a bid to suppress freedom and democracy. Several opposition blocs in Parliament formed a loose group to defend the constitution.
MP Khaled Al-Tahus said the attack on the rally was “premeditated” and warned it will have “serious consequences on the government.” “The situation is too grave ... This only takes place in repressive countries ... The country is passing through a serious turning point,” Tahus, a member of the nationalist Popular Action Bloc, told reporters.
Independent MP Mubarak Al-Waalan called for the government to step down. “It’s time for this government to go.”
