Veteran MP Ahmad Al-Saadoun accused influential forces he did not name of working against the national assembly and democracy in the country because their interests were undermined by the assembly. "The previous assembly was dissolved because it passed laws that harmed the interests of influential forces which have started to move now" Saadoun said. "There is a conspiracy against democracy in Kuwait and some may say it’s a conspiracy theory but we actually believe in the conspiracy theory" he said.
Islamist Shiite MP Hussein Al-Qallaf said the future of democracy is in real danger, and criticized the new government which he claimed was formed in this way "to silence people". "The prime minister deliberately forms the cabinet in this way to instigate political crises" Qallaf said. Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah refuted the allegations saying that MPs have no constitutional right to interfere in the formation of the cabinet as this is the exclusive right of the prime minister.
If there are comments and remarks against the government, the constitution provides MPs the right of monitoring and accountability" the prime minister said.
The prime minister also affirmed that the government will submit its program as promised before the start of the next assembly term next October. A number of tribal MPs also criticized a clampdown by the interior ministry against tribal primaries held during the May election with MP Abdullah Al-Fahma clashing with the Interior Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah.
Sheikh Jaber insisted that the interior ministry only applied the law which bans tribal primaries without any prejudice against any section
of the society.
