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- Title: Political Crisis: Kuwait Political Crisis Reflects Weakened Administration, Analyst (Kuwait-Report)
- Author : The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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Longstanding tensions between Kuwait's cabinet and parliament are an expression of the oil-rich state's decrepit political administration, which has failed to live up to the population's expectations, a Kuwaiti analyst wrote in the London-based daily AL HAYAT on Jan. 7. "The conflict in Kuwait targets primarily parliament's position in the political system and mirrors a dire need for government reform and development," Shafic Nazem Ghabra wrote in the Saudi-owned newspaper. "The conflict has deepened at the backdrop of a clear weakness in government and bureaucratic apparatuses," added Ghabra, who teaches political science at the University of Kuwait. "Government is full of people whose main goal is to serve their personal interests and who suffer from masked unemployment. This situation has angered all of society's political currents and prompted parliamentarians to act against the cabinet," according to the analyst, whose Palestinian-born father was a medical doctor for Kuwait's ruling al-Sabah family. Kuwait's embattled prime minister survived a no-confidence motion in parliament on Jan. 5 after opposition lawmakers failed to sway enough votes over accusations the cabinet was trying to roll back political freedoms in one of the West's key Middle East allies. Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah was backed by 25 members in the 50-seat parliament and 22 voted in favor of his dismissal, according to AL HAYAT and others. One parliament member abstained and others could not vote because they also hold cabinet posts. The closed-door voting capped weeks of political tensions in Kuwait, which is one of the few elected bodies in the Gulf with the power to challenge authorities and force changes in the leadership. It was the second time in 13 months that the prime minister turned back a no-confidence challenge that would have led to political upheavals of either reorganizing the cabinet or calling for elections.
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