KUWAIT: Kuwait’s ruler accepted the government’s resignation yesterday, the state news agency Kuna said, a step designed to make way for a new cabinet in the Gulf Arab state after parliamentary elections boycotted by the opposition.
The election on Saturday was the second this year in the oil-producing nation, where a series of assemblies have collapsed due to a long-running power struggle between the parliament and the cabinet, in which the emir’s ruling family holds the top posts.
“The emir accepted the resignation of the government,” Kuna said in a news alert, adding that the ministers would serve in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet was formed.
More than half the members of parliament elected on Saturday are newcomers to the 50-seat National Assembly. The chamber is expected to be more cooperative with the government than its predecessor because of the opposition boycott of the vote, and protests that divided the US-allied, Opec member state.
Reuters
