Badara

[Drax]

IS WIG DONE?
 
MANARA  ALBRAYD SRIA AL-MUSAMI
(If it’s in the Monsoon, it’s got to be true)
 
Bier Qassem, April 17, 5722:  The Monsoon asked former Finance Minister Nazir al-Sayed if the Working Institutional Group (WIG) was through as a political party, and he responded:
 

There are three ways to look at that question, and I will address all three.  First, the traditional leaders of WIG are retiring, .most notably Faisal Abu Saq and Bashir ibn Ortoq. The former was one of several key players in restoring fiscal sanity to Jumhuriat al-Badara and the latter was the single most important figure laying the foundation of the current regime thereby rescuing the nation from anarchy.  And Hakim a-Sabah who laid the foundation for our reentry into international affairs from isolation is in fact about to retire.  So the WIG  long time leaders have indeed departed.
 
Second,  with our only current government connections being the SOMECO representative and the Member Presiding over the Majlis, are we pretty much sidelined and unlikely to regain power?  I might add I have been invited to replace Mariamne al-Qassem as Managing Director of Central Bank, and should  I agree would not be considered part of WIG leadership either. 
 
Now that is a good question, and a truthful answer is instead of alternating the chancellor job  with the Free Radical Supper Club, we will likely never have another WIG chancellor.  But the answer is also we have not given up on joining a future governing coalition.  We have plans which are realistic but admittedly not overly ambitious.
 
And third, more broadly, is our day done?  And the answer is no, we represent the business community in the Majlis.  We are the link of the government to commercial interests and for that matter the oligarchy.  Without us the government would be economically blind.

WIG'S Nazir al- Sayed