The historic decision resulting from the meeting of executives and the legislatives at the speaker's office to discuss fuel price increases is supposed to be good news, as they decided granting every citizen holding a valid driving license 75 liters of free petrol monthly. Observers are disagreeing whether the value of this 'achievement' is KD 6, 7 or 8 every month!

It is obvious that the 2013 parliament's message is outstanding, unique, expressive and straightforward. This parliament is an achievement itself because it was the first elected by the one-vote electoral system. It was the replacement of the scary demagogic opposition. It was the achievement that promised to represent minorities in parliament, improve the language used in the Assembly, focus on development, stop corruption, expose bribe takers and threaten to grill the Cabinet and bring down the PM if the government came near citizens' pockets and income!

This is why the 2013 lawmakers called their parliament as the one of achievements. They started highlighting figures and statistics and laws they managed to pass. Therefore, the new KD 7 must be considered another achievement for them. Therefore, it would be unfair to criticize the Assembly or its members' performance, because criticism angers them no more. It only angers those who relied on them and tried to make excuses for their performance and accused them of fault-finding!

Ever since its first day in office and up until the fuel joke, the current parliament's performance reflects its members' formation and potentials. After all, its members are doing their best and have passed laws after discussing them in specialized committees, but those laws were only hollow and meager ones. They have grilled ministers and even the prime minister himself, but none of those motions reached a no-confidence vote. Instead, they hailed those grilled. They demanded holding a special session and collected 35 signatures, and eventually met at the speaker's office and broke the good news to the Kuwaiti people. Well, they did their best and this is as far as they can go!

This is the result of the people's choice and trust in the one-vote parliament. Yet, can you possibly take one dinar and go to purchase whatever you want of international brands at the Salhiya mall? It seems that this is the 'take it or leave it' parliament! - Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida

By Dr Hassan Abdullah Jouhar