How much will it cost to grill the Prime Minister?

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WHEN writing the political history of Kuwait about the current stage, historians will describe the four governments of Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid as not only weak, but also lacking a program and vision, and gambling with the fate of the country by paying very high prices to maintain the external image of a feeble Cabinet.

This is due to the fact that these governments were, and still are, a great gateway to further weaken the state, and foster corruption at all levels.

This is not an exaggeration. Such a description would be fair and on point, given that for the past three years, these governments have not provided anything that can be credited in their favor.

Perhaps the current government will be described as the worst because it was born weak and suffers from shortcomings in many ways. This is evident in the three parliamentary tests that it underwent, and each time it fell hard by renewing confidence in ministers who hardly got the vote of confidence, and the cost of that was huge.

The latest of this is the Minister of Public Works Ali Al-Mousa, who succeeded with one vote only. However, in return, the government paid a high price from the public money by allowing employees to sell their vacations, and paying a small amount to the retirees, which is their right.

During the last phase, they were between the rock of parliamentary blackmail and the hard place of government bargains, but this time the Kuwaitis will pay all the price, given that what you have been given by the right hand was already taken by the left hand through increase in charges.

This was the case with the former minister of Defense Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali, as well as with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed. Although the three issues were marred by many constitutional flaws, if the government had a real plan of action and a vision for what it wanted and had guaranteed a parliamentary majority, it would have been able to obtain the majority of votes and could have ended grillings without putting the burden of cost on the people.

However, its weakness and mismanagement indicates that there is a defect in the selection of ministers and their boss, as well as in the relationship of the executive authority with the National Assembly.

Moreover, everyone feels that the government insists on wasting opportunities at all levels, starting with the development achievement, passing through legislation, to utilizing the current improvement in oil prices, which can restore, through increased income, the losses incurred during the COVID-19 crisis and improve the sovereign credit rating, which was premeditatedly decreased, while the government was preoccupied with interpellations that it gets dragged into in various ways.

Earlier this week, we heard for the first time the voice of the Prime Minister in his intervention in response to one of the MPs. His talk was about morals, which is a good thing.

We wish to reiterate that the integrity of the prime minister is clean, but that is not enough. Kuwait needs more than this.

Therefore, we are not revealing a secret when we say that His Highness the Prime Minister literally applies the saying that he is leading the Council of Ministers in extra-time. Heavy prices will continue to be paid from the public money to escape the confrontation.

Here we ask: If the three ministers passed the vote of confidence by 22 or 23 votes and at a very high price, how much will the grilling of His Highness the Prime Minister cost the state?

By Ahmed Al-Jarallah

Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times

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