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| Arabia | ||
| Islamists sweep Kuwait polls | ||
| 2012-02-04 | ||
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... took 23 seats compared with just nine in the dissolved parliament, while liberals claimed only two places against five previously, according the official results. And no women were elected, with the four female MPs of the previous parliament all losing their seats. Voters punished pro-government MPs during Thursday's parliamentary election, reducing them to a small minority, the results showed. Only two of 13 former MPs who the public prosecutor questioned over corruption charges were re-elected, and the rest either lost or did not contest the poll. Following the announcement of the results, hundreds of opposition supporters gathered at the campaign tents of candidates they backed to celebrate the outcome. Speaking after his victory, new opposition MP Obaid al-Wasmi warned all "corruption files will be opened," including claims that hundreds of millions of public funds were stolen. "I tell the decision-makers that the Kuwait of tomorrow will not be the same as of the Kuwait of yesterday," said the outspoken independent opposition figure. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Soon statues of Barack Obama will be erected. In Tehran. |
| Posted by: Shimble Guelph5793 2012-02-04 12:41 |
| #1 Fortunately they still have an absolute monarch, so they might actually get something out of the deal, since Islamists at first sometimes do clean up a lot of institutional corruption, before putting in their own corruption. And the king can veto anything too egregious, if he is of a mind. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-04 09:05 |