By Muntaha Al-Fadhli, KUNA,
Kuwait : Rhetoric of the contending figures for the upcoming parliament polls is rich in notions and proposals but none of the hopefuls has presented a full development plan.
Information professor Khaled Al-Kahs said in an interview with KUNA that vital issues such as education, health and housing are quite appealing for the voters. Aware of this, many candidates have raised slogans and ideas related to the prospected development of these sensitive areas.
Many of the nominees have not come forward with well-prepared, or well-studied complete draft strategies for the national development, particularly those running independently.
Such candidates have favored promoting issues that really hit the chords of the voters,
namely hiking the salaries, writing off the loans or canceling fees or criticising the state campaign for removing sites built on public land plots.
Al-Kahs expressed his opinion that many of the candidates underestimated the level of consciousness and intelligence of the electorate, neglecting the educational influence of modern-day means namely the internet and the television satellite services.
Generally, the political scene carries no explicit outlook in terms of addressing the sticking issues and the stands that have been taken are mere reactions, he added.
Dr. Ahmad Al-Sherif, an information professor, said issues raised by the candidates in the various districts were identical because the problems in the residential regions were similar.
The nominees have focused on shedding too much light on the nature of the problems, without presenting possible solutions.
And the professor of media, Mahmoud Al-Musawi, concurred that most of the nominees failed to forward full programs to address the national affairs and problems.