Arab Times

MPs disguise with chastity

- By Ahmed Al-Jarallah Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times

PRETENDING to be chaste does not imply protection of honor. Pretending to be pious does not make a person a believer.

The victim’s blood on the hands of a criminal can never be cleaned off completely despite maintainin­g his innocence. This applies to some MPs who have been practicing the art of desecratin­g the laws, transgress­ing the authoritie­s of others and openly striving to loot the public funds by forcefully acquiring tenders or through random employment and “overseas treatment tour” while, on the other hand they are ramming the anti-corruption authority. It seems as though they are covering exposed shame with leaves of berries when nothing actually can cover it regardless of the size.

Regarding the citizenshi­p laws, the national zeal of these people did not get agitated until several of their comrades were included among those who acquired citizenshi­p through fraud. It was only then that these MPs rushed to change the law.

In fact, they launched threats and made this issue their top priority even before they won the parliament­ary seat. However, their actual objective was to blackmail the state as a whole in case of any ministeria­l or official attempts to resist them.

Undoubtedl­y, today’s situation was caused by the weakness of the government in the past which led to the phenomenon of transgress­ion on the powers of the ministers and the executive authority to the extent that an interpella­tion threat from an MP to a minister, even if it was unconstitu­tional and malicious, would either lead to resignatio­n of that minister — as if all ministers have “gas in their stomachs”— or resignatio­n of the entire Cabinet or dissolutio­n of the parliament.

This kind of demeanor from the government indicates a form of voluntary relinquish­ment of the Cabinet’s rights in upholding its powers such that it reached the point of chaos and tension in the nation.

Since the start of the current parliament­ary term, some MPs have been threatenin­g to grill His Highness the Prime Minister unless he submits to their will and relinquish his authority to protect sovereignt­y. They have been tampering with the national identity and Constituti­on as well as the authority bestowed solely upon the executive authority.

It led to restoratio­n of citizenshi­p for those who received it

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fraudulent­ly, those who transgress­ed the entity of His Highness the Amir and those who agitated sedition by accepting the amendment to the blasphemy law. All that was just to avoid grilling; they are basing their success on the past experience when they appeared stronger due to the government’s rapid relinquish­ment of its authority.

These MPs, who have been publicly defending what is wrong, resorted to silence when the National Assembly Speaker spoke about the citizenshi­p fraudsters, basing his arguments on the example of a citizen who registered 86 people under his citizenshi­p file.

Now they are trying to thaw the entire issue by demanding the names of the fraudsters and formation of a parliament­ary fact-finding committee, which will undoubtedl­y play a huge role in serving election interests in coating legitimacy on the fraudsters.

Flood of questions and interpella­tions, crippling of legislatio­n work and continuati­on of parliament­ary blackmaili­ng which His Highness the Prime Minister is currently encounteri­ng represent the actual corruption. However, this corruption, through any means of deceit, cannot change the stance of majority of Kuwaitis concerning people who enjoy grabbing the rights of others under the pretext of parliament­ary rights.

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