New Kuwaiti Cabinet takes office after dispute with parliament
The government will be tasked with tending to the country's financial difficulties and the pandemic following a dispute between the prime minister and parliament.
Kuwait’s new government was sworn in on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah took office along with his entire Cabinet, the state-run Kuwait News Agency reported.
The Gulf kingdom has experienced several leadership changes in the past few months. In September, longtime Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah passed away. His brother, Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, succeeded him as emir later that month.
In January, Prime Minister Sabah resigned along with his Cabinet amid a debate on the government’s formation. Sabah was reappointed to form a government later that month and then formed a new Cabinet on Wednesday. Sabah swapped out four ministers who parliament had disapproved of to form the new government. He replaced them with experienced politicians deemed less controversial, Al Jazeera reported.
