Do you agree with me, dear reader, that we live in a partisan country? I hope no one denies this, as all indicators confirm the existence of political groupings in Kuwait that are different in their principles, ideologies and connections. These are parties, yes this is the real understanding of parties, that should receive legal legitimacy and get organized by the state and work in the open as the case is in all democratic countries. If they are not legalized, they will work in the dark and be run in secret, as the case is with us.
Parties are life's necessity, because they represent harmonization of class, as well as the capitalistic regimes' belief in them. Parties are also a stage in the class growth as Marxism expresses it. Even in the Islamic policy that is considered in the middle between the two contradictions - capitalism and communism - the Almighty Creator approved the class principle as a living necessity and made differences among people not linked with a deserved status. "It is we who have appointed among their livelihood in the life of this world and have raised some of them above others in degrees (of rank), that they may make use of one another for service. But the mercy of your Lord is better than whatever they accumulate." - Holy Quran
So, any attempt to jump over the formation of parties is really a political shortcoming that leads, as the case with us, to the growth of secret groups who are not supervised. Harmful alliances may be forged and not discovered until it is too late, and the entire society may pay the price for this. Today, for example, we have by-elections where various political groups are fighting for one seat, and the Kuwaiti voter does not know who they are and what their programs are. All what we see and hear is media pressure to make someone succeed and raise him, and expose another and bring him down.
Success will be on the side of the one who has a group that allocates much money in order to storm social media and media of all types. Or whom the government stands with all it has from social influence tools and supporters able to influence. The one who will win is not necessarily what the people want, and he may not be the most honest, good and strong. The one who will win is the result of unknown powers competing, and this is the secret of the Kuwaiti street apprehension.
Once again, we reiterate that the Kuwaiti citizen has limited influence in the election process, and the only solution is in announcing parties, and push them to the front under the eyes of the people and under the law, and only then the democratic process will begin in Kuwait. Only then the Kuwaiti people will have the freedom of choosing the strong and trustworthy.
By Dr Khalid Ahmad Al-Saleh