June 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The crown prince of Kuwait, Meshal al Ahmad al Sabá, has reappointed Ahmad Nauaf al Sabá as prime minister and has demanded that he form a government, in the midst of the serious political crisis in which the country has been plunged for several years. months.
The decree published by the office of the crown prince indicates that the measure has taken into account “the clauses of the Constitution” and last week’s decision accepting the decision of the prime minister, who has once again been asked to “nominate the members of the new government.
“The prime minister has to apply the order and report to the National Assembly”, it states, before emphasizing that “the decree, which takes effect immediately after its issuance, must be published in the Official Gazette”, as it has been collected the Kuwaiti state news agency, KUNA.
The decision comes some three weeks after Kuwait’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal filed against the annulment of the parliamentary elections in September, leading the country to hold new elections.
The 2022 elections were marked by outstanding victories for opposition candidates, Islamists among them, and the consolidation of formations such as the Islamic Constitutional Movement, the Kuwaiti affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most important Islamist organizations in the world.
This tug of war is one more episode of the usual tension between the Kuwaiti executive and legislative branches in a country that has granted Parliament more important powers than other of its neighbors. The latest political crisis has led, for example, to delays in the approval of a state budget for the 2022/2023 fiscal year and other economic reforms.
