Today, Tuesday, members of the new Kuwaiti government took the oath before the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, more than a month after the previous government resigned due to the interrogations in Parliament.
The Emir of Kuwait issued a decree appointing members of the new Kuwaiti government headed by Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, which included 14 ministers, some of whom are new and others who were in the previous government.
Saad Al-Saeedi, director of the Al-Jazeera office in Kuwait, said that this government came out after lengthy consultations compared to previous governments, as it took a month, led by Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, who was the foreign minister in previous governments.
Al-Saeedi added that the new government was formed after a difficult birth because its president received many apologies from personalities he sought to include in the government formation.
The director of the Al-Jazeera office in Kuwait indicated that the life of the government of Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah will be short and will not exceed the year because its mandate will end with the end of the current parliament and the holding of new legislative elections late next year.
According to Al-Saeedi, the new government faces major challenges, the most important of which is its relationship with parliament, amid talk of interrogations that may target some of its ministers.
He clarified that the new Prime Minister informed Parliament that he would submit a letter to the Emir if his government faced an escalation of deputies, and the Emir could extend the government and form another government or resort to Parliament, and the second option is the most likely.
The government witnessed for the first time three women in ministerial positions, including the Minister of State for Economic Affairs in the previous government, Maryam Al-Aqil, who became Minister of Finance.
Also, for the first time, the Ministry of Interior is assigned a non-ruling family, Anas Al-Saleh, who was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs.
The change included half of the members of the previous government with the entry of seven new ministers, most notably Foreign Minister Ahmed Nasser Al-Muhammad Al-Sabah (son of the former Prime Minister) and Defense Minister Ahmed Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, while others maintained their positions, including the Minister of Oil and the Minister of Electricity and Water Khaled al-Fadil.
The previous Kuwaiti government headed by Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah submitted her resignation on November 14, after two interrogations targeted two ministers in the government and ended with the request to put confidence in them, and later the resigned Prime Minister apologized for not accepting the Emir’s mandate to form a new government.