Manama: Minutes after a crucial vote on a no-cooperation motion in Kuwait, the parliament speaker congratulated the prime minister, an opposition MP said that the street would be next battle ground and another lawmaker resigned.
Kuwait's Parliament Speaker Jassem Al Khorafi congratulated Prime Minister Shaikh Nasser Al Mohammad on winning the support of the parliament.
"The parliament confirms its confidence in and cooperation with His Highness the Prime Minister and on behalf of all lawmakers, I congratulate him on this confidence and wish him success," Al Khorafi said after the re-convening of the session following the voting in which 25 lawmakers expressed their support to the premier, against 22 and one abstention. One MP was abroad and the 50th was a government minister who had no right to vote on the motion.
However, Mislim Al Barrak, a leader in the anti-government motion, said that the opposition would be relentless in its activities to oust the current cabinet.
"We will celebrate its fall through the streets," he said.
The opposition on Monday said that it would resort to street pressure tactics to force the government to resign.
The option, however, was rejected by the government and some MPs who insisted that divergences could be addressed in the parliament.
MP Hassan Al Qallaf who last week warned of the miasma in which Kuwait was sliding offered his resignation just after the voting.
