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Is Majlis Dissolved?

I don’t post politics but this is too funny not to. Is Majlis Dissolved? is website to keep track of the government. [Link]

46 replies on “Is Majlis Dissolved?”

I don’t see how this is funny. I wouldn’t blame His Highness the Emir if he dissolves the Parliament. From the first day, you have people screaming why 2 of the female MP’s aren’t wearing a hijab. There are other people who are talking about nonsense. 10 people also didn’t show up when the Government swore oath because they “oppose” the Government, when in fact opposition is banned in Kuwait. It was really rude for 10 MP’s not to show up when His Highness the Emir was giving a speech. What a shame. I just wish they’ll dissolve Parliament period. None of the MP’s look what’s best for the country, but they only look for personal gain.

All thats come out of this “Majlis” lately have been problems, if it weren’t for these guys the real estate business would be blooming…sooner we get rid of them, the better. Nicely said Dana.

I think it’s funny when people start nit picking a system that is inherently and institutionally flawed.

Here’s a question for you: Are Kuwaities free to elect and choose their Government?

Now until that day comes around, Kuwait will never be considered a democratic nation.

I would have to agree with Sfsa78. Backing out and holding the thought of having no parliment is better for the country is exactly what some selfish minds want. Kuwait with no Majlis has the worst two events in kuwaits history azmat elmana5 and the iraqi war. Always have faith in majlis elomma and advocate for better choice of MP`s and not the suspension to this democratic advantage that soo many envy us for.

dana o bj wala mentaw fahmeen il agenda il kbeera
thats what soome ppl want from the kuwaiti democracy ….to reck it and everything then is done unopposed

bas what happened is not them not attending instead them resigning from the hearing ..which is worse….they resigned coz there is no plan from the government which is a law in q8
instead they should have given them a leeway of 45 days to come up with a plan or 10 days to set a date for this plan.

sadgeeny law maku majles il gar3a ter3a ,,,,,ma3 il majles o fe balawe guess without it ?

Hathy liKuwait 9alu 3ala ilnibee… BTW yesterday I was at the bank and saw Sanaa2 Al Kharaz.. It’s time for a new song for Kuwait.. It always cheers me up.. CHEER UP KUWAIT

So long as the Unaware, uneducated, pro-tribal, pro-religious extremist etc, ate the majority in this country.. I say no more parliament untill there is real awareness.
You might well say: “taugh luck, majority rules, so majority is always right!”….I tell you, you are wrong!!!!
May I remind you that at one time, the majority in the USA wanted slavery to stay legal… What hapenned after a few years? The rightous minority faught against the dogmatic majority in a long drawn civil war.
Today we all know that the minority’s ideal was truely rightous in americas civil war.

Yeah i agree Sfsa78 but the thing is, major political change usually comes from a desperate need that causes a major struggle of some sort. People here are too sedated to do something like that.
“i7mid rubikk habiby at least kuwait is better than (insert random country name here)”
this is the kind of mentality that is prevalent here. Petty satisfaction does not bring about change at all. There is no hunger for a better or more advanced life.

Realistically, change in kuwait will only happen when it starts running out of oil and money and the people cannot afford to keep their cushy and apathetic lifestyles. this of course won’t happen for a looooooooooong time so don’t hold your breath.

Holla… I’m sure deep inside every educated Kuwaiti knows you’re right… The thing is… Still no one is doing anything about it.
I don’t want to wait for the inevitable exedus of “our kind” from this country when, just the mere rumour, or talk of only 20 years oil reserves are left Under Kuwait soil, that will happen sooner or later. Already the investments are leaving Kuwait.
The idiology of; “if we go down, then we all go down together” is highlighted by the laws that restrict any Kuwaiti from holding not only dual, but also multiple citizenship.
Don’t be fooled by the mcartheist witchhunt of “loyalty to your nation”. There may be only a couple of countries in the whole world that dissalows citizens from their right of holding a dual/multiple citizenship.of course we the whole world is wrong and we are right. I ask you, does any other nation on earth go on in an obsessive paranoial fashion about showing one’s loyalty to a country???
I could go on and on, but lucky for you it’s getting late.

I say keep going with it. My country – the UK – has had a parliament for over 300 years now. However, we still have scandels such as the recent expenses claims by ministers. It doesn’t mean that we give up on parliament, we just punish those who have done wrong by voting them out as soon as we can.
If people are the problem – replace the people.

I think a lot of us talk out of a mistaken belief that we know what we are talking about.

I was too young in the 80’s when ilmajlis was dissolved, but i asked my father about the situation, because a lot of people were saying what some of you were saying, that the only things that come out of this majlis are problems and more problems, and we are better off with parliment dissolved.

What he said was basically, once majlis was dissolved, there was nobody there in an supervisory role to monitor the actions of the government, and you had a free for all. You think there is corruption going on now, just wait when those same corrupt people don’t have anybody who can watch over them. You think people or entities are getting govt. tenders and are doing a crap job with it, back then they were getting the tender and putting the money straight in their pockets, without even trying to make it look partly legitimate.

So based on that i don’t think you would want parliment to be dissolved, but you want better MP’s like others have said. And to those who say suspend the elections until people are better educated to vote, how do you educate people about democracy or proper voting when you have just suspended it.

Make voters aware of how their bad voting habits (voting based only on religious sect. or family ties, etc…) are negatively affecting them. if this situation continues, education will become worse than it is now. Medical Care will also worsen. The housing problem will become worse. and a million other things. We need the parliment, but we also need MP’s who are up to both tasks, legislation and supervision. So if you voted for a cousin or a friend or someone who shares your own religious views, and all they care about is fighting over minor issues you have nobody to blame but yourselves. The Change starts from you first.

Please note that i am not advocating any one political agenda, Liberals, Islamists, Sunnis and Shi3a, Bedouin, 7adhar, all could have corrupt candidates, and they could all have great candidates, choose the person who will serve the country by making better laws and supervising the implementation of those laws, which in turn will serve you back in many different ways.

Nothing will change, it will be the same
Nothing will be resolved, it will stay the same
Nothing will be improved, it will remain the same
Words never changed a country, when the oil runs out(or more probable, a replacement will be found earlier) that is when it will change.

Democracy will never find its full potential in any Arabic country as long as Arabs think that Democracy means saying or acting as you please. Unfortunately, most Arabs think that by achieving Democracy you are free as a bird. That is why you see a lot of opposition to it, i.e. Salafist, Muslim Brotherhood etc. etc.

That is not a Democracy; even with a Democracy you have rules / regulations, in other words Laws.

And even at that, Laws are not always put in place to be fair or serve ones personal justice. Laws are put in place to preserve order within a society. You might not agree with a certain Law, you might think it is not fair, but it is purely there to protect order.

Exactly Fattboa. Most people will only change when they are FORCED to. Especially with such a dramatic change.

Safi stated, “Our parliament is what puts us apart from other Arab countries.”

I completely agree – 100%. What sets it apart is that the rest of the world is making jokes about it.

Anony – I agree with you a 100% that its our fault and that we chose these MP’s to represent us. Another point is that not enough qulaified people are running, if at all. Did you see their campaigns? poems and shit! Nothing to do with issues or their agendas. Not enough exposure of the people we need.
Ok i understand that its our fault because we chose them, but what if we had no other choice? We, then, are “forced” to pick based on sinna shi3a or qabaliyah or whatever. Does that make sense?!

Never give up on democracy. Stop the ignorance. Resolving the majlis would only bring alot more corruption. We need to learn from our mistakes and try harder. NOT GIVE UP.

Kuwait was never a democracy, it is a constitutional monarchy. As long as there are people who are above the law and as long as they have a mean to be forsaken from the law, it will stay the same.
Decadence control this country, extreme amounts of money with no one to govern them. Why do you think Kuwait is becoming or has become a lot less religious? Money enabled them to do whatever they want and please and the people who claim to be religious use it as a front for mass appeal. PM do not get paid a lot as an “official salary” but the benefits is what they LOVE and is the reason why you see so many try to succeed. It only takes one drive past one of their houses to see why the common man’s “Utopia” will never happen, at least in his lifetime.
Kuwait will become a Dystopia. Perhaps the change will unfurl from within, those entitled to power will want it.

Two very reputable organizations that have been monitoring and documenting democracies for decades are Freedom House, and the Economist.

Both enlist Kuwait as an authoritarian regime.

Like I said in an earlier post, democracy is based on principles.
There is no “democratic” handbook or a rule-book.

Countries like Japan, South Korea, Australia, Sweden, UK, USA, Canada etc all have different political institutions and different setups but they are ALL democratic nations because the founding principle of what it means to be a democratic nation is upheld. That principle being that your Government is elected by the people.

opposition is not allowed in kuwait?? dayum… anyways still waiting for the barbeque-ing of (insert name).. wonder how long till that happens.

You should all be extremely careful about what you write here. Freedom of speech isn’t exactly practiced in Kuwait.
You can be imprisoned for speaking out against the government…

Michael,

You can’t deny that Kuwait is the most democratic country in the Middle East when it comes to Freedom of Press. Even more than Israel, which is a “Western” country according to some. In Kuwait, you can say something against the royal family, and only get a slap on your hand, that’s if they even prosecute you. If you go against the royal family in Saudi Arabia for example, you will damn sure get hanged. So, I do think Kuwait is democratic in the “Arabian” kind of way. Just because you’re American or British, it doesn’t mean that we have to follow how your government is established. It has flaws too. Besides, there isn’t one Kuwaiti who doesn’t want the royal family in power. Without the Al-Sabah, Kuwait will simply fall. Most of the MP’s are in power because they buy votes. What do you think is going to happen when we’ll have an elected Prime Minister? It’ll be chaos! We as Kuwaitis are very proud of our democracy. While it’s not as democratic as Western standards, we are still better than the rest in our region, and I am more than sure that we are the most envious country in the Middle East. Everyone wants to follow us.

I haven’t read the essays in between, but in response to Desert Girl:
I don’t see myself wanting to give up on our attempt at democracy just because people in other (dictatorship) countries are “making jokes” about us. BFD. We ain’t in primary.

On the other hand, I’m getting the vibe some people would be fine with the parliament being abolished all at once. But two wrongs don’t make a right. That’s just crazy talk if you ask me.

The idea is hilarious and the fact that the number is being updated day by day is even funnier!

Crazy crazy crazy people hahaha; glad we have that kind of humor in Kuwait hahahahahahahaha

There is no such thing as a real democracy. Secondly, the parliament in Kuwait is a joke and will remain a joke for a very long time. Arab culture is partly to blame for this. We support our family and friends regardless of the situation. A lot of people here are deeply rooted into religion and believe they are better then the . In terms of corruption, well this happens everywhere but it is a lot worse here. Again, wasta and ties stop people that are doing wrong from getting properly punished for their actions.

Democracy works a lot better in western countries due to the way people think and are brought up.

The current situation in Kuwaitt will endure until the day the Majlis and Cabinet discovers that it cannot bribe the public with the public’s money and welfare.

A democracy cannot never exist as a permanent form of governmeny because citizens voters inevitably discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment onwards, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.

History shows that the average age of the world’s great civilizations have been two hundred years. These nations progress through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage. Sound familiar; Kuwait?

Kuwait has created an “entitlement class” among it’s citizens. People act as if everything is owed to them and no effort on their part is required. People feel they are owed a job but have to put forth no effort in the performance of said job. I work in the private sector as a manager. One employee was late six times in 11 days then tried to tell me her husband was going to be mad that she got fired. You think? And that is my problem, uhmmm, how? People are actually surprised when I fire or discipline them.

These are the same people who decide to spend their last dinars on vehicles they cannot afford and let their kids eat falafel. They are never accused of making piss poor choices, they are coddled and told how bad they have it, how unfair the company is to them!

Hey TweeZ,

I got one, close all borders with Iraq, period! They’ve been nothing but a pain in the you know what for the last 100 years or so. From King Ghazi, to Saddam and in between. Throughout history, they’ve been bullying us til we woke up and found out that we’re stateless. Iran waged war with them in the 80s and we rebuilt Al-Faw. What did we get in return? August 2 1990. The thing is we never learn from history. It does not matter who runs Iraq, they will always have their eye set on Kuwait even though Iraq is richer than Kuwait and Saudi Arabia combined and that’s a fact.

Our super-friendly foreign policy with Iraq needs to be changed.

Democracy:
“It doesn’t matter what the rules say. It matters only that the rules exist, to establish and enforce a code of conduct, a propriety, a defence against lawlessness, an Englishness”

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