Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

But these processes have been distorted by the prime minister. So in the end, we have an elected politician who can remain above the law with no mechanism to deal with it -- no accountability, no responsibility. That to me is not democracy.

The fact that I was elected prime minister shows that the LDP has changed,