(Parliamentary Procedure) (tr) parliamentary procedure (in European legislatures) to question (a member of the government) on a point of government policy, often interrupting the business of the day
[C16: from Latin interpellāre to disturb, from inter- + pellere to push]
Minister Al-Roudhan said he had chosen to stick to classy dialogue despite slander and defamation by the two MPs "whose criticisms had crossed limits." Interpellation is undoubtedly a necessary constitutional tool "but this constitutional legitimacy wanes when the interpellator excessively use it for questioning," he said.
Similarly, in the next letter, 91 09 14 BR, I find the eighteenth-century editor Burman's punctuation much more readable than De Landtsheer's: Tu vero non molestus interpellator et saepe eveniant mihi tales, ut per viam defessis, iucundus comes taedium levat et laborem.
The government will consider whether to terminate the tax incentive while watching the economic situation and market developments, Nukaga said in answer to an opposition camp interpellator at the House of Representatives Budget Committee.
a) Transgressed the rules and tradition of the House with impunity like including the time consumed by the answering sponsor to the one-hour limit allocated to an interpellator which greatly diminishes the latter's time;
The motion focuses on what the interpellator refers to as "financial and administrative irregularities and suspected encroachment on public funds" regarding the awarding of a tender for establishing and furnishing a new terminal and the Kuwaiti International Airport.
I have been both an interpellator to yourself as well as you have interpellated me and I think you would be the best judge as to my capability in understanding the issues particularly complex as they may be, he said.