Safaa Al-Hashem … a Kuwaiti, Egyptians celebrated her downfall in elections: “Racism is an ugly thing.”

“Expatriates must be deported and prevented from returning to the country again.” The most prominent statements were from the Representative Safaa Al-Hashem, in the National Assembly of Kuwait, whose name is most searched through Google, after announcing her defeat in the parliamentary elections that are currently being held in Kuwait.

Al-Hashem was elected for the first time in 2012, in a Council session that was canceled by decision of the Constitutional Court, but entered the Council the following year, to shine his star in Parliament in 2013, and re-elected in 2016, to being the only woman among the men in that session, so the name Al-Hashem is associated with eight years enough. With emotion, controversy and attack on arrivals, especially the Egyptians.

Press reports say that Safaa Al-Hashem was born in 1964 and is the eighth of his seven siblings. She married at a young age and later separated from her husband, with whom she had three children.

He studied at the University of Kuwait, Pennsylvania State University and Harvard Business School, obtained an MBA and diploma in English, began his career in the government sector and worked in the Ministry of Higher Education since 1994, reaching the position of President of the Board of Directors, in 9 years. .

She moved into the private sector, specifically in the field of fund raising and corporate finance, and became a prominent businesswoman in the Arabian Gulf, before moving into politics and entering parliament in 2012.

Al-Hashem was known for her harsh criticism of Kuwait’s policy towards expatriates, to the point of accusing her of racism against residents of her country, and she clashed with the Egyptians much more than once, and the issue came up many times. to verbal exchanges with the submission of reports to the Egyptian prosecutor’s office to prevent him from entering the country.

In April 2017, Al-Hashem demanded, during the Kuwait National Assembly meeting, not to depend on expatriate workers, specifically the largest percentage, according to their classification, which is the Egyptian workforce. She said, “Why do we need plumbers and electricians from Egypt?” Then he added: “Why do we need These, we lack the blue necklaces in Kuwait.”

Previously, Al-Hashem welcomed the decision of the Kuwaiti authorities to stop granting visas to members of the Egyptian community in Kuwait due to the spread of the Corona virus in their country, noting that the decision is absolutely correct in light of the conditions by those that the country is going through in the face of the Corona epidemic, he said.

The Kuwaiti deputy added, during statements published by the Al-Qabas newspaper, that she calls for all expatriate residents who pass their license in Egypt to be prevented from entering Kuwait during this period, following up: “We have to play the role we are given. demands here to protect our country and our people from this epidemic. “

After that, the most searched hashtag, Safaa Al-Hashem, was posted on Twitter and among the comments that reached him: “A humiliating defeat. I don’t like to gloat, but I like the moment it spins. The main reason was that it has sabotaged the good relations for many years between Egypt and Kuwait, may God protect the two countries.

There are a number of accusations directed at Safaa, as “racist”, as it appeared recently in a televised recording of the Kuwaiti Parliament, sending a message, commenting on the complaint of the Egyptian citizen Fatima, who was recently attacked in Kuwait. He started it with a warning tone, as he said: Nabila Makram .. Minister of Immigration and Egyptian Affairs Abroad.

He added: “There is no need for political and media gains winking and blaming fear of upsetting the dignity of the people we have honored more than their country has honored, so some of them cross the red line of Kuwaiti citizen and become entangled with the destiny of their daily and professional life. ” He concluded his letter with: “And if you forgot what happened, bring the notebooks to print.”

In a previous meeting, there are a number of Egyptian universities, which he called “suspicious”, as he indicated that he had submitted to the Minister of Education a list that included the names of fake universities in Egypt, Jordan and the United States.

He mentioned that an Egyptian university looked him up on the “Wikipedia” website and found that his address belongs to an apartment. This was in the context of the ministry’s discovery of forging more than 400 university degrees, most of them in the field of law, in a process that is not the first of its kind.

Sources from the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry revealed at the time that an Egyptian expatriate working in the Ministry of Higher Education colluded with one of his community members to forge certificates in his country, in exchange for money.

According to the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas, 50 members gained membership in the council, notably Marzouq Al-Ghanim, the current president, because the composition of the council changed by 62%. Of the 2016 assembly members, only 19 members achieved a scenario that was repeated for the elections that took place in 2016. New faces in most districts by more than 42%, and according to Kuwaiti law, Kuwait was divided into 5 districts electoral, 10 candidates win in each district, reason why the National Assembly consists of 50 deputies.