Kuwait is awaiting the new ministerial formation that Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah will present after being officially reassigned to form the new government by an Emiri order from Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Emir of Kuwait, who had previously ordered to dismiss the current government, which is in charge of the temporary management of business in the country, as announced by the Kuwaiti Amiri Diwan.
Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah had assigned Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah to temporarily take over the defence portfolio in light of the new assignments that were anticipated in the days following Ahmed Nawaf Al-reappointment. Sabah’s Muhammad Al-Faris was also given the portfolio of the Ministry of Interior by acting until new ministers were re-nominated by the side. According to Kuwaiti media, Ahmed Nawaf Al-Sabah is the new prime minister-designate.
The current government, led by Sheikh Ahmed Nawaf Al-Sabah, stated earlier this week that the Emir of the country, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, has accepted its resignation. This comes after the results of the National Assembly elections were declared at the end of the previous month.
After an Emiri order was issued to accept the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh “Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah” and his ministers, which is the forty-first government in the history of the country, Kuwait announced the appointment of Sheikh “Ahmed Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah” as prime minister and tasked him with nominating members of the new ministry.
The National Assembly will meet on October 11th, according to a draught decree signed by the cabinet, according to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), and the new administration will be formed before that session.
According to Article 57 of the Constitution, which mandates the re-formation of the government at the beginning of each legislative term of the National Assembly, the current government’s resignation and assignment to the caretaker came after the official announcement of the results of the National Assembly elections.
The country’s executive branch is comprised of the Council of Ministers or the Kuwaiti Government.
The Emir appoints the Prime Minister and the ministers, and he or she can be removed depending on the Prime Minister’s recommendation. The general terms and duties of the Council of Ministers are defined in the fourth chapter of the Kuwaiti constitution within the same framework. According to the constitution, both elected and non-elected members of the government have a place in the Kuwaiti National Assembly. The government is also required to include elected representatives among its members.
The National Assembly should not elect more than one-third of its members as members of the government. In January 1962, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah established the first government, which functioned as a transitional government until the constitution’s inception. The previous administration, which submitted its resignation after being questioned in the National Assembly, was led by “Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.”
Following a speech made by Kuwait’s Crown Prince, Sheikh “Mishaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah,” in June on behalf of the Kuwaiti Emir, “in which he announced the dissolution of the National Assembly and non-interference in the elections of the Parliament, the Parliament’s committees, and its presidency, to issue a decree dissolving Parliament,” the legislative elections were held under the one-vote system.
Later in August, 305 candidates, including 22 women, ran for office in these elections, which were held in five electoral districts. These candidates were supported by individuals and political movements that had boycotted the 2012 elections in opposition to the electoral law amendment and the adoption of the single electoral vote system; the Popular Action Movement and the Democratic Forum were among the most well-known of these.
The elections were also organized for the first time according to the national identity voting system, that is, according to the address of residence in an effort by the authorities to distribute the electoral votes equitably between the districts’ through the obligation of each voter to vote in his place of residence.
Following the success of former minister Jenan Bushehri for the third electoral district and Alia Al-Khaled for the second electoral district in the legislative elections, women were once again represented in the Kuwaiti National Assembly. Years were spent opposing the electoral law revision while 20 former MPs, including 3 former ministers, were unsuccessful in re-election.
They succeeded to win 8 parliamentary seats, belonging to the Salafist movement and the Islamic Constitutional Movement.
Kuwait is the centre of attention. The present administration is overthrown by “Al-Sabah,” who also orders the creation of a new one.
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