KUWAIT CITY, Jun 14 (NNN-KUNA) – A royal decree was issued yesterday, to reappoint Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, as Kuwait’s prime minister.
The Emiri decree, signed by Kuwait’s Crown Prince, Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, said that, Sheikh Ahmad is responsible for nominating new cabinet members and submitting their names.
This decree, issued about a week after the Kuwaiti emir accepted the previous government’s resignation, came, one week before the convening of the newly elected National Assembly (parliament), on Jun 20.
On Jun 6, Kuwaiti voters cast their ballots to elect the 17th National Assembly. A total of 50 lawmakers were elected out of 207 candidates, in the new legislative for a term of four years.
Kuwait’s parliament, reinstated in March, following a Constitutional Court ruling on a previous dissolution, was dissolved by a royal decree in May this year.
Over the past years, tensions between Kuwait’s cabinet and the parliament have frequently resulted in cabinet reshuffles and dissolutions of the parliament.
Sheikh Ahmad was born in 1956, as the eldest son of Kuwaiti Emir, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. He served as the Kuwait National Guard’s deputy commander between Nov 2020 and Mar 2022, and was appointed as the prime minister, on Jul 24, 2022.– NNN-KUNA
