Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah made a cabinet reshuffle that included the resignation of four ministers, the appointment of four others and the re-distribution of three other portfolios.
The resignations included Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, Minister of State for Economic Affairs Hind Al-Subaih, Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity and Water Bakheet Al-Rashidi, Minister of Public Works and Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Hossam Al-Roumi and State Minister for National Assembly Affairs Adel Al-Kharafi.
The outgoing ministers will replace four new ministers, Fahd al-Shula, minister of Awqaf and municipal affairs, Saad al-Kharraz, minister of social affairs and labor, Khaled al-Fadil as minister of oil and Maryam al-Aqeel as minister of development and planning.
Minister Fahd Al-Afasi will receive the National Assembly Affairs portfolio alongside the Ministry of Justice originally assigned to him. Janan Bushehri will receive the portfolio along with the Ministry of Housing, which currently occupies her seat. The Ministry of Services will be entrusted to Khalid Al-Rawdan, who is the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
The Minister of Works Hossam Al-Roumi has submitted his resignation after the damage caused by heavy rains in the property of Kuwaitis and expatriates last month.
The resignation of Oil Minister Bakhit Al-Rashidi, in order to avoid the pending questioning by the deputies of the National Assembly, which has identified its interlocutors in the failure to implement the project environmental fuel largest development projects, and deliberately reduce the amount of delay fines on the project contractors, and mislead the political leadership and the Kuwaiti people wrong data on the date of operation , And the state incurred huge losses.
Some deputies have announced their intention to question the Minister of Social Affairs Hind al-Subaih because of the closure of some charities and increase the number of violations in the disability affairs.