The opposition's campaign has for years been focused on fighting corruption and what they describe as "corrupt media", referring to media outlets they accuse of using falsified statements to attack the opposition. These allegations intensified before the elections last February as members of the opposition increased the number of fictional stories about their heroics in fighting corruption. In the end, all opposition candidates won the elections, while democratic candidates became the biggest losers.

The 2012 parliamentary election results mean one of two things. First, the hidden and known forces that the opposition claims to be fighting against are fictional, and that the uproar they are making is a silly play we have to see every season, featuring failed actors looking to secure more votes.

Either this scenario exists, or that the alleged ‘forces of corruption’ instead exists and helped the opposition secure the large and sudden win they had in the elections. It is both likely and clear that there have been efforts to help new opposition members to be elected who don’t have previous experience in parliamentary work, which eventually happened at the expense of former MPs with significant experience who either failed or barely made it to the parliament.

For example, let’s take the third constituency, being the most multicultural in Kuwait and includes members from all categories in Kuwaiti society. The opposition’s theory claims that the ‘forces of corruption’ secured the win of two candidates, specifically Nabeel Al-Fadhl and Mohammad Al-Juwaihel. But the same constituency also saw all opposition candidates win, including inexperienced members such as Mohammad Al-Dallal and Abdul-Aziz Al-Yahya, who led all third constituency candidates by a large margin. On the other hand, national and democratic movement candidates all lost in the third constituency, the same as they did in the first election, while barely being elected in the second constituency.

So, if corrupt people with influence and corrupt media outlets are working against the opposition, how were the oppositionists able to secure a landslide victory, unless that happened through support the oppositionist candidates received from corrupt forces. Of course, the opposition will deny this theory; but that doesn’t answer how they won a landmark victory, despite being fought, as they claim, by corrupt individuals, or how the democratic candidates failed, in the meantime. — Al-Qabas