Kuwait Election : Failure of Political Trends
May 20, 2008
If there is something that we can understand from this Election is that all political trends have failed in the Election
Now you can say that for example Salaf have increased their seat count , but thats not the area where i think all parties failed
What i speak of is going into the election as a party with similar or identical ideology or mentality
Let me explain my point here by giving couple of examples
In the second district , Khalid Sultan bin Essa is representing Salaf and was the Salaf candidate together with Abdullatif AlAmeeri
both won , but lets see their numbers [ number taken from Alrai Site ]
Khalid Sultan bin Essa third place with 8687 votes ( خالد السلطان )
Abdullatif AlAmeeri eights place with 5361 votes ( عبداللطيف العميرى )
aka there is 3326 vote deference that would mean there are over 38% of Khalid Sultan bin Essa voters who do not believe in his partner !!
( who was chosen whom he share the same ideology and mentality )
we notice the same thing with Democratic Alliance
Mohamed AlSager 6266 ( محمد الصقر )
Mohamed AlAbdulljader 3636 ( محمد العبدالجادر )
there is a 2630 deference that would mean there are over 41% of the people who voted for Mohamed AlSager didn’t vote for Mohamed AlAbdulljader ! ( who supposedly share the same ideology and mentality with )
Same thing with the Islamic Constitutional Movement ( Muslim brotherhood )
Jama’an AlHarbish 6496 votes (جمعان الحربش )
i couldn’t get the official numbers for Dua’j AlShamari ( دعيج الشمرى ) but i assume he got less than the guy at number 10 spot we lets assume he got 3600
that would mean there is at least 2896 vote deference between them and they are from the same party / movement
Well i do hope this serve as a wake up call for political trends and go back to politic 101 else our democracy wouldn’t evolve
( cross posted from my post at 5-q8 election blog [Arabic] ]
The masses cried for a democracy.
They got one.
They’re still crying (judging from your post).
There’s just something completely irrational about it all.
It’s like complaining that Swiss cheese has holes. That is irrational, for it is the nature of Swiss cheese to have holes.
Comment by I'm no lizard — 20/5/2008 @ 7:48 pm
most of the ppl in kuwait would go for the family name not for the political trend . and dont forget the romers most of the ppl in kuwait just follow them simply,same as what happen to daij alshemari and naser alsane.
Comment by Omaro — 20/5/2008 @ 9:13 pm
i don’t about them having the same political ideology, I just hope things improve even with the salaf around, but I doubt that is going to be the case. Alah Ekoon fee 3oon ahal el ikwait!
Comment by Marzouq — 20/5/2008 @ 11:34 pm
Don’t lose or give up hope!
Remember, Kuwait future isn’t judged by how well the election goes and to whom! It’s how us the people act and do!
The real true power is within the people, you can
see regarding the removeal of dowaniyathow people acted towards it, it’s not going easy, people are not willingly accepting it to be removed! They strike and protest…etc (It’s a weak example yes! But it was the latest close one to my subject).
Even if they are all are bad, it doesnt mean the country will be bad too!
Keep in faith
May Allah, bless us all
Comment by Al-Mubarak — 21/5/2008 @ 9:48 am
Spot on!
As long there are tribalism and political religion, true democracy can never be archived.
“a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”, but in our case, it’s probably a million miles to reach the true potential of a democratic society.
Comment by Angelo — 23/5/2008 @ 2:04 pm
Angelo:
“true democracy”
Is there such a thing? Really I mean it, is there?
corruption need to be cleared and cleaned for good, before we can reach an accepted level of democracy or what I like to call, democrazy!
News1:
11 Police officers beating up one guy with handcuffs!! Cause he was defending his sister… Come on!
News2:
An almost identical tragedy was going to repeat it self, where a hole family got poisoned by detergent!
Comment by Salem — 25/5/2008 @ 10:34 am