Kuwait's National Assembly mourns al-Menawer's demise

The National Assembly at its regular session on Tuesday mourned the death of member of the Foundation Council Abbas Habib Al-Menawer, who passed away in Germany after a long treatment journey at the age of 85.
National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim said in a speech that Kuwait has lost one of the pioneers of the constitutional foundation and one of those who participated in setting the Kuwaiti constitution and witnessed the transition from the conventional rule to constitutional rule with exceptional elites, led by late Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah.
Over more than half a century, Al-Menawer was a real and honest representative of the people with all what serves the interests of Kuwait, he added.
For his part, Minister of Oil and State Minister for National Assembly Affairs Dr. Ali Al-Omair participated on behalf of the government in the mourning of Al-Menawer, stressing he had left clear imprints since the Foundation Council and in the roles Kuwait had gone through.
Al-Menawer began his political life after the independence of Kuwait, where he participated in the formation of the Foundation Council in 1962 and chaired Al-Ayyam newspaper which was published in the United Arab Emirates. He was a member of many boards of associations, clubs and non-profit organizations.
He participated in the first legislative elections in 1963 for Al-Shamiya constituency and ran in 1967, 1971 and 1975 for the same constituency and succeeded in all of them. In 1985, he became an MP for Al-Farwaniya constituency.
After the liberation of Kuwait, Al-Menawer participated in the 1992 elections and succeeded overwhelmingly, and in 1999 he decided to quit politics.
Al-Menawer was born in 1930 in the Rashaida neighborhood. In 1946, he worked at Kuwait Oil Company, at the age of 16, he worked at the port for a whole year, then moved in 1955 to work in the electricity sector.