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MORE FACTIONS GROW IN MAJLIS; WIG LIKELY TO LOSE POWER
 
MANARA  ALBRAYD SRIA AL-MUSAMI
(If it’s in the Monsoon, it’s got to be true)
 
Majlis, November 17, 5659: The most recent elections saw most delegates returning to the Majlis, but more and more of them are identifying with one of the factions, and most notably the new factions rather than with the Working Institutional Group (WIG) or the Free Radical Supper Club (FRSC).
 
The Monsoon asked Religious Affairs Minister Khalifi al-Qassem whether Chancellor Hakim al-Sabah would be able to continue as Chancellor, and he replied.
 

Probably not.  The majority do want a functioning government but not at the expense of the same old representatives of the oligarchy running everything. 
 
Also, the Ministries of Defense and Interior are beginning to look too independent; they are Independent delegates in the Majlis but are seen by many as laws unto themselves.
 
All three religious factions want traditional views of the family and society to receive more protection and are not going to take promises of doing something later this time.
 
The Metzists of Majatra (MM) support our view that the safety net must be maintained but are wanting to see some limits on power accumulation to get their support.
 
In all honesty, it looks like I am going to putting together a governing coalition again.

 
Asked by the Monsoon why he and his sister would be trusted by MM or the rank and file of the FRSC since they are very much part of the oligarchy as members of the family that owns the leading banking house in Jumhuriat al-Badara, al-Qassem replied:
 

Two reasons. We have spelled out from the beginning that our view of the FRSC is to protect the rights of the Sovereign People and their safety net as the viability of government has been revived, and we have kept our word.
 
Second, since we are part of the oligarchy, the oligarchy does not believe we will destroy it, so we can make deals that others can’t.

FRSC Leader Khalifi al-Qassem