Kuwaiti prime minister asked to form third government this year
Kuwait's often fractious politics have seemed to have increased since the death last year of Emir Shaikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.
Kuwait’s prime minister was tasked today with once again forming a government.
Prime Minister Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah was instructed to form a governmental cabinet by an “emir order,” the official Kuwait News Agency reported, referring to Kuwait’s ruler, the Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah.
The government would be Kuwait’s third in a year, all of them headed by Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah. The first government resigned in January and the next took office in March with the task of addressing economic challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic, but it resigned in early November.
Kuwait is ruled by the emir, while the parliament is elected. The stream of resignations has to do with the often stormy relationship between the cabinet and the parliament, which is heavily influences by populists.
