SOME lawmakers will never stop issuing grilling threats against the Prime Minister and resort to playing the same boring disc record. This is the reason people look down at them and have turned them into laughing stock. People are expressing regret for electing such personalities to represent them at the National Assembly each time they listen to such threats. This is in addition to the fact that the threats have lost their supposed effect due to the high rate of occurrence. This could be likened to fake drugs used in laboratories, so the lawmakers should give up such attitudes while searching for things that are useful to citizens and the country.

Lawmakers who make grilling threats to promote themselves do not realize that they need to understand parliamentary culture, the meaning of constitutional provisions and the National Assembly’s bylaws. Above all, they need to learn from the past, because experience is the best teacher. They should also understand that their baseless summer daydreaming will not shake Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah’s position, so it remains a mere waste of time because the deed has been done and the truth is in the open.
People no longer care about the outcry of lawmakers, since they realize that whenever one of them is unable to influence and provide overseas medical treatment to his undeserving family member, he issues a grilling threat. People understand that some of them do this when their efforts to push through transactions or proposals fail, in addition to failure to influence the promotion of undeserving employees. The usual statement by the Prime Minister that ‘Constitution is arbiter between us’ creates undue stress for them because they only understand the concept of grilling in the Constitution.

It is rather unfortunate that lawmakers cannot meet the national responsibility and expectations of people. The simplest expectation is to relieve the country from backwardness and allow it to catch up with the rest of the GCC, at least in the area of living standard. People crave for the commencement of implementation of government’s developmental plan, which was approved months ago, but has still not reached the implementation stage because lawmakers are busy with secondary issues which are out of their jurisdiction. People who are yearning for internal stability, especially in the National Assembly that looks like a world war battlefield, abhor all these actions.    

These lawmakers are not satisfied with their constitutional prerogatives and start feeling like parliamentary dictators. They want to take over positions in the Interior, Defense, Foreign Affairs, Health and Public Works ministers and interfere in every minor issue, leaving their own assignments aside. If the situation remains the same and nobody stops them from continuing the same attitude, they could demand taking over leadership positions. Temptation has taken these people to a bad situation, because they do not fear God when it comes to fulfilling their responsibilities towards the public good.
There is an old adage which says, ‘There are men and state all the time.’ The blindfolded people should understand that the current political intrigue is different from the past. The Prime Minister is completely in tune with every issue, performs national duty wonderfully and exerts all efforts to fulfill his duties. Those people should be calm and work for the interests of the country and citizens.   

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