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Vote to punish MP who burned Israeli flag in Bahrain
parliament defeated
Thursday November 29, 2012 08:00:33 PM,
Agencies
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Dubai:
A Bahraini lawmaker, who set the Israeli flag alight in parliament
last week in protest against the recent Israeli war on Gaza, has
narrowly escaped punitive action by other MPs, a media report
said..
Bahraini MP, Osama Al-Tamimi, smuggled in fuel in parliament to
torch the Israeli flag without any warning, Al Arabiya reported
quoting UAE-based Gulf
News report published Wednesday.
While punitive action against Tamimi required a majority of 21
votes, 15 MPs supported the call to take action against him, 10
abstained from voting, and six others opposed transferring his
case to the legislation committee to look into the case. Eight
lawmakers, however, were not present at the weekly session.
Bahrain’s parliament speaker, Khalifa Al Dhahrani, warned that the
parliament was on its way towards negative practices, urging
fellow MPs to take punitive action against Tamimi.
“The case should have been transferred to the legislation
committee to review it,” Gulf News reported him saying. “It was
not a critical decision to be taken against the lawmaker, but
rather against his actions. It was not right not to allow the
committee to look into the various aspects of the case and draft a
report.”
Other nine parliamentarians also filed a case against Tamimi in
the legislation committee to decide on a stricter course of action
to ensure this type of behavior by a MP not to be repeated.
Tamimi created a controversy last year when he threatened to hit a
fellow MP with a booklet before he reportedly insulted a woman
lawmaker during the session break. He was subsequently suspended
for five sessions.
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