Ahmed Lari is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly

National Assembly of Kuwait

The National Assembly of Kuwait, known as the Majlis Al-Umma , is the legislature of Kuwait. The current speaker of the Assembly is Jassem Al-Kharafi. The Emir unconstitutionally dissolved the National Assembly in 1986 and restored it after the Gulf War in 1992...

, representing the first district

Kuwait's First District

Kuwait's first district comprises nineteen residential areas starting from Sharq and Dasma, passing through Salmiya and Rumeithiya and including Bayan, Meshrif and Hawally among others. It has a total of 66,641 voters of whom 36,571 are women and 30,070 are male...

. Born in 1955, Lari studied Statistics and worked in the Municipal Council before being elected to the National Assembly in 2006. While political parties are technically illegal in Kuwait, Lari is a member of the National Islamic Alliance

National Islamic Alliance (Kuwait)

The National Islamic Alliance is a hard-line Shia political party in Kuwait. It is alleged to have links with Iran and Hezbollah which it denies. Of the fifty elected members of Kuwait National Assembly, two belong to the National Islamic Alliance: Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad and Ahmed Lari....

, a Shia party.

Expulsion from Popular Action Bloc

On February 19, 2008, the Popular Action Bloc

Popular Action Bloc (Kuwait)

The Popular Action Bloc is a political bloc in Kuwait headed by veteran former Speaker Ahmed Al-Sadoun. The group focuses on populist issues like housing and salary raise, and reform...

 expelled Lari and fellow Shiite MP Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad

Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad

Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the first district. Born in 1950, Abdulsamad studied political science and worked in the Oil Ministry before being elected to the National Assembly in 1981...

 for taking part in a ceremony eulogizing Hezbollah's slain top commander, Imad Mughniyeh. The ceremony's description of the fugitive Lebanese militant — killed in a February 12 car bombing in Syria — as a hero sparked public outrage in a country that holds him responsible for hijacking a Kuwait Airways flight and killing two of its Kuwaiti passengers 20 years ago. The two lawmakers were only expelled from their bloc and remained in the legislature. After the expulsions of the two, the seven member bloc was down to five members.

Opposition to Grilling of Prime Minister Nasser

In November 2008, Waleed Al-Tabtabaie

Waleed Al-Tabtabaie

Waleed AlـTabtabaie is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the third district. Born in 1964-4-4, Al-Tabtabaie obtained a PhD in Islamic studies from Al-Azhar and was an assistant professor at Kuwait University before being elected to the National Assembly in 1996...

, Mohammed AlـMutair, and Mohammed Hayef AlـMutairi filed a request to grill

Kuwait National Assembly No-Confidence Votes

Kuwait National Assembly No-Confidence VotesThe questioning of Cabinet ministers can lead to their impeachment, which the government usually avoids by resignations, reshuffles and dissolving the legislature...

 Prime Minister Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah for allowing prominent Iranian Shiite cleric Mohammad Baqir al-Fali

Mohammad Baqir al-Fali

Sayed Mohammad Baqir Ahmad Abdul Aziz al-Fali is an Iranian Shia cleric and preacher from Iraqi origins. He is the youngest son of the late Ayatollah Ahmad al-Fali. Many of his programs and lectures broadcasted on the Shia Channels such as; Al-Anwar, Al-Zahraa, Al-Mahdi and Imam Hussein, besides...

to enter Kuwait despite a legal ban. Lari was quoted as saying that the majority of MPs, like him, were against the grilling.