Op­po­si­tion Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Barataria/San Juan Sad­dam Ho­sein has been sus­pend­ed from the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives for sev­en days af­ter be­ing found to have dis­played 'gross dis­or­der'.

The sus­pen­sion was up­held by a vote of the House that end­ed with 19 in favour and 17 against.

The mat­ter arose when Ho­sein was con­tribut­ing to de­bate on the Mid-Term Re­view and be­gan speak­ing on a court rul­ing that San Fer­nan­do West MP Faris Al-Rawi warned might be sub-ju­dice.

Af­ter a short back-and-forth tus­sle on the top­ic, House Speak­er Bridgid An­nisette-George even­tu­al­ly ruled on the mat­ter and ad­vised Ho­sein to move on.

Ho­sein replied, "Madame Speak­er, this is re­al­ly op­pres­sive what is hap­pen­ing in this Par­lia­ment, es­pe­cial­ly with the Stand­ing Or­ders that are be­ing raised by the oth­er side."

The Speak­er in­ter­vened and told Ho­sein, "When I rule, I rule. I want you to apol­o­gise for what you just said or suf­fer the con­se­quences for it."

Ho­sein then told the Speak­er that he want­ed to im­me­di­ate­ly end his con­tri­bu­tion and af­ter be­ing al­lowed to, he be­gan speak­ing again about what he con­sid­ered to be op­pres­sive be­hav­iour in the House.

As Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert rose to con­clude the de­bate, Ho­sein again in­ter­rupt­ed with loud dis­cord, at which point the Speak­er "called to the at­ten­tion of House, the be­hav­iour of mem­ber for Barataria San Juan" which she said amount­ed to "gross dis­or­der".

The Speak­er then called on a mem­ber of the House to in­voke clause 55.7 of the Stand­ing Or­ders, which refers to the Speak­er feel­ing in­ca­pable of con­trol­ling of the pro­ceed­ings and which dic­tates that the per­son pre­vent­ing the con­trol, to be named.

Laven­tille West MP Fitzger­ald Hinds in­tro­duced the Stand­ing Or­der to the House and moved that Ho­sein "be sus­pend­ed from the ser­vice of this House".

The mat­ter was then put to the vote, which then end­ed with Ho­sein be­ing sus­pend­ed for a pe­ri­od of one week.

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