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2005-04-08 Arabia

Kuwaiti parliament near being dissolved?

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Posted by Fred 2005-04-08 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Legislators harmed their relations with the executive when they called a vote of no confidence in the health minister

Forgot they're just for show, eah?

Posted by gromgoru 2005-04-08 7:53:39 AM|| 2005-04-08 7:53:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Must be time to change the window dressing.

Posted by raptor 2005-04-08 8:56:18 AM|| 2005-04-08 8:56:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Y'see, this is why it's bad when the government already has all the productive resources in a country. When the state has no need to tax, sitting fat and happy on a vast lake of oil reserves, it has no need for a legislature to vote tax bills. No goddamn need at all, and when the state's pet assembly starts thinking it's got some sort of, y'know, mandate - well, just flush it down the toilet and go find some other hobby to keep its monstrous self amused. Maybe an ant farm.

It's no coincidence that the two Arab states with institutions most nearly resembling actual functional legislatures - Morocco and Jordan - are resource-poor, oil-less wonders.

Don't pester me with Egypt's big, fat counter-example. The absence of oil isn't a guarantee - just a initial requirement.

Posted by Mitch H. 2005-04-08 1:21:01 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2005-04-08 1:21:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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