Manama: A Kuwaiti commission tasked with scrutinising the applications for the parliamentary elections this month has reportedly suggested that 46 candidates should not be allowed to run.

In a report to Interior Minister Shaikh Mohammad Al Khalid, the commission said that the candidates to be ruled out did not fulfil the requirements to be eligible to contest seats.

Some of the candidates faced court sentences, while others did not meet the good reputation status required to contest the polls.

The commission said that Shaikh Malek Al Sabah, a member of the ruling family, was among the 30 candidates who did not have the right to run.

Under election rules, members of the Al Sabah ruling family cannot run in parliamentary elections.

The commission said that controversial former lawmaker Abdul Hameed Dashti should also be disqualified.

The ex-MP faces more than 30 years in jail stacked up against him from several trials resulting from cases filed against him for insulting Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the Kuwaiti judiciary.

Dashti who has been abroad since March registered his name to run in the elections on November 26 after a court dropped an initial ban against him for signing up by proxy through his son. The rules call for the physical presence of the candidate at the time of the registration.

Some of the candidates should be disqualified for failing to complete the registration procedures, while others did not have a good reputation as required by a rule upheld by the Court of Cassation, the commission said in its report, Kuwaiti daily ‘Al Jareeda’ reported on Tuesday.

The minister will make the decision on the merits of the disqualifications recommended by the commission.

Kuwait’s Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah last month called for the elections following the dissolving of the parliament elected in 2013 and scheduled to run until July 2017.

It was the ninth time that a parliament was dissolved in Kuwait, and only six elected parliaments lasted their full terms since constitutional life was launched in the northern Arabian Gulf country in 1962.

Officials said that 454 candidates, including 15 women, registered their names to run in the elections, the second to be held under the one-vote system introduced in July 2013 following the amendment of the electoral law that slashed the number of candidates a voter could choose from four to one.

The decision angered the opposition who took the matter to the Constitutional Court, but the judges ruled that the amendment was constitutional.

The opposition boycotted the elections, but most of its members have reversed their stances and will be running on November 26.