On December 19, 2006, parliament voted 39–20 to reject a bill that would have seen the government write off $27bn of its citizens' private debts. Marzouq al-Ghanem voted against the bill, telling the assembly, "What do we tell those who did not borrow? What do we tell those who paid back their loans or part of their loans?" On April 25, 2007, MP
Saleh Ashour called in a statement for reopening Kuwait's embassy in Baghdad and for strongly supporting the government in Baghdad. But al-Ghanim said he believes that it was too early to reopen the Kuwaiti embassy in Baghdad and that this issue should wait until security situations improve. On February 8, 2008, al-Ghanim, as head of the Youth and Sports Committee, agreed reform the Kuwaiti football program in line with the recommendations of
FIFA. In November 2007,
FIFA had suspended Kuwait from all international matches because of governmental interference in the national football program. The dispute originated with Kuwait's October 9 elections for key posts in the country's soccer federation. FIFA and the
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) refused to recognise the polls. FIFA said Kuwait had ignored the two bodies' "road map" of reforms requiring them to set up an interim board to organize fresh elections and draft new guidelines to prevent governmental interference in the game. On September 28, 2008, al-Ghanim, along with MPs
Abdullah Al-Roumi,
Ali Al-Rashid, and
Adel Al-Saraawi have proposed a draft law which suggests that the government fund Kuwaiti students' higher education at private colleges. According to the bill, the government would bear half of the expenses for students enrolled in private universities in Kuwait, excluding
Kuwait University. On December 28, 2008, Marzouq Al-Ghanim along with many other lawmakers protested in front of the National Assembly building against the attacks by
Israel on
Gaza. Protesters burned Israeli flags, waved banners reading,
"No to hunger, no to submission" and chanted "
Allahu Akbar". Israel launched air strikes into the Gaza Strip on December 26 after a six-month ceasefire ended on December 18. In October 2017, Al-Ghanim, speaking at an
Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting in
St. Petersburg,
Russia, stated that the Israeli delegation "represents the most dangerous form of
terrorism: state terrorism" and told the Israeli delegates to get their things and leave the hall. The Israeli delegation did leave after overwhelming applause from parliamentarians from other countries present at the meeting. On February 8, 2020, Al-Ghanim threw a copy of the US so-called "
deal of the century" in the bin, during the emergency conference of the
Arab Parliamentary Union, held in the Jordanian capital
Amman. He further stressed that it "was born dead" and "should be thrown in the dustbin of history". == Other posts ==