To put the blame on the Popular Bloc, even partially, in the case of compensation for the cancellation of the Dow contract is not precise talking, even it matches the facts of the deal cancellation.

To begin with, the two Popular Bloc MPs, Ahmad Al-Saadoun and Musallam Al-Barrak along with MP Saleh Al-Mulla who joined them demanding the cancellation of the deal, are only Parliament members without the right to execute or cancel the deal.

Yes, they might threaten to grill some minister or something similar, in case the deal is passed. But for sure they have no power to execute, as that is Government business only. The Government has made the deal and agreed on it and cancelled it. The previous Government is fully responsible, not the MPs who demanded the cancellation of the deal or the Government who responded to their demands.

These are the details of the political responsibility in general. MPs are not responsible in any way. They did not negotiate, they did not sign and they did not put the penalty condition, which no one knew about it. Even the Government, the Prime Minister and the Oil Minister: none of them knew about the imaginary penalty condition which was added by the Kuwaiti negotiator in the interest of “Dow” Company. It was kept secret from everyone. It was discovered four days after the Government cancelled the contract. No one knew about the penalty condition neither the MPs nor the Government nor the Supreme Council for Petroleum knew about it.

It was discovered in the meeting held by the Supreme Council for Petroleum (SCP)that only three persons knew about the penalty clause. The SCP was not informed about this condition. After it was disclosed, the Government was at a loss as to how to explain it, and how to find a way out of the mess and declared through the Oil Minister that the penalty condition was a “ceiling” for court purposes.

This means if Dow sued the Kuwait Government it could not ask for more than $ 2.5 billion. This is what happened in the court decision in favor of Dow which fined Kuwait $ 2.1 billion, about $ 400 million less than the “ceiling” to which the Oil Minister pointed then.

What is very clear is that the MPs who caused the cancellation of the deal are not responsible. The previous Government is fully responsible, and the current Government should send all Kuwaiti parties who participated in negotiating the contract with Dow for interrogation and send the one who hid the penalty condition to the court.

NOTE: Whoever wants to hold Ahmad Al-Saadoun responsible for the loss the Kuwait Government incurred, because he demanded canceling the deal as MP, is one of two people. Either he doesn’t know the alphabet of politics or he is speaking in someone else’s tongue. – Al-Anba