Английская Википедия:Ahmed Al-Sadoun

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Ahmed Abdulaziz al-Sadoun (Шаблон:Lang-ar, born November 12, 1934) is the Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly from June 20, 2023. He was previously the speaker from 1985 to 1999, from February 2012 until it was declared that the February 2012 elections were invalid and from October 2022 until it was declared in March 2023 that the September 2022 elections were invalid. He is the leader of the Popular Action Bloc in the Assembly and served for eight terms.

He represented the third district. Al-Sadoun worked in the ministry of communication before being elected to the National Assembly in 1975.

Al-Sadoun is a real estate executive.

Personal information and career

Шаблон:BLP sources section He is the youngest of his family born to his father Abdulaziz Jassem al-Sadoun and mother Madhawi al-Rikada. He has 12 brothers and sisters. Al-Sadoun is Married with six children: two boys (Abdulaziz and Mohammed) and four girls (Widad, Ghada, Shaikha and Dalal). He is one of the founders of Kazma Sporting Club in 1964 and secretary until 1968 and then the president of Kuwait Football Association from 1968 to 1976 and vice president of FIFA from 1974 to 1982.

• Home City: Khaldiya, Kuwait
• Religious Views: Sunni Islam
• Elected Member: since 1975
• Elected Member for: 12 terms 1975, 1981, 1985, 1992, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2022 and 2023
• Speaker of Kuwait National Assembly: 1985, 1992, 1996, 2012, 2022 and 2023
• Political Orientation: Leader of the Takatul al-Nawwab (1992) and of the Popular Action Bloc (1999, 2012)

Allegations of profiteering

On May 28, 2007, the National Assembly formed an in-house investigation panel to look into allegations that al-Sadoun and Mohammed Al-Sager used their influence to make money. The seven-member panel examined claims that Al-Sadoun gave information he garnered from a parliamentary question to his son, helping the company the son worked in to win a business contract.

Oil reforms

On June 14, 2008, al-Sadoun and three other MPs filed a bill prohibiting annual oil output from exceeding one percent of proven reserves. The bill also required the state to disclose the emirate's actual proven reserves. Government reports declared Kuwait's reserves to be about Шаблон:Convert, though some reports said proven reserves could be as low as Шаблон:Convert. Kuwait had been producing just under one billion barrels per year, one percent of the official reserve figure. The bill would cut output by one quarter of the previous Шаблон:Convert.

Al-Sadoun broke from Kuwait's oil policies in opposing the entry of international oil companies (IOCs) into Kuwait.

Protest against Israeli attacks

On December 28, 2008, al-Sadoun with fellow Kuwaiti lawmakers Mikhled Al-Azmi, Musallam Al-Barrak, Marzouq Al-Ghanim, Jamaan Al-Harbash, Ahmed Al-Mulaifi, Mohammed Hayef Al-Mutairi, Nasser Al-Sane, and Waleed Al-Tabtabaie protested in front of the National Assembly building against attacks by Israel on Gaza. Protesters burned Israeli flags, waved banners reading, "No to hunger, no to submission" and chanted "Allahu Akbar". Israel launched air strikes against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on December 26 after a six-month ceasefire ended on December 18.