By an Amiri decree, Kuwait announced today (Sunday) the formation of a new government headed by Sheikh Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and it included 14 ministers, in addition to its president, including Talal Khaled Al-Sabah, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior and Minister of Defense by Acting, Khaled Ali Muhammad Al-Fadhel, Deputy Chairman of the Council. Ministers and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Badr Hamid Youssef Al-Mulla, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Oil and Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs.
The new government included: Fahd Ali Zayed Al Shula, Minister of State for Municipal Affairs and Minister of State for Communications Affairs, Abdul Rahman Baddah Abdul Rahman Al Mutairi, Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs, Ahmed Abdel Wahhab Ahmed Al Awadi, Minister of Health, Amani Suleiman Abdel Wahhab Bukmaz, Minister of Public Works, and Hamad Abdel Wahhab Hamad Al Adwani. Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education.
According to the Amiri decree, Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mai Jassim Muhammad Al-Baghli as Minister of Social Affairs, Women's Affairs and Childhood, and Amer Muhammad Ali Muhammad as Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.
Mutlaq Nayef Omar Abu Quba Al-Otaibi was appointed Minister of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy and Minister of State for Population Affairs, Muhammad Othman Muhammad Al-Aiban as Minister of Trade and Industry, and Manaf Abdulaziz Ishaq Al-Hajri as Minister of Finance and Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investment.
An Amiri order was issued on March 6, appointing Sheikh Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as Prime Minister, and assigning him to propose members for his new cabinet.
And the Kuwaiti government resigned last January 23 after the strained relationship between the executive and legislative branches.
The crisis erupted between the Kuwaiti government and the National Assembly (Parliament) due to its refusal to make any pledges to the representatives regarding the so-called "populist laws", in addition to the National Assembly's failure to respond to its demand to withdraw the two interpellations directed at the Minister of Finance Abdul Wahhab Al-Rasheed, and the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Barak Al-Shitan.
The government requested to postpone the discussion of these issues, before it withdrew from the parliament session that was held on January 10, so that two deputies submitted two inquiries to each of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs. The resignation of the Kuwaiti government came 3 months after it was formed on October 16.
The decree to form the government at that time was the second within 10 days, after the previous government submitted its resignation 24 hours after its formation, following a parliamentary rejection of it.
Kuwait witnessed parliamentary elections last September, following the dissolution of the previous National Assembly on August 2, against the backdrop of ongoing crises between the government and Parliament.
Tensions between the legislative and executive authorities impeded the government’s work since the parliamentary elections that took place in December 2020 until the dissolution of the former National Assembly on August 2.
However, on March 19, the Constitutional Court announced the invalidity of the 2022 National Assembly elections, and the reinstatement of the elected National Assembly in 2020.
Okaz (Kuwait) @okaz_online
