Kuwait's royal family continues discussions to establish new government
The royal family in Kuwait continued its discussions on forming the new government.
The parliament expected the change to include more than half the ministerial positions. Representatives and political factions called for the foundation of a powerful and consistent government representing different political viewpoints.
According to the sources, Crown Prince Sheikh Saad El-Abdallah El-Sabah, who is assigned to head the new government, took steps to set up the new ministerial assignments, expected to be announced before the end of next week.
Kuwait sources told ArabicNews.com that the concern of Sheikh Saad focuses on finding two adequate candidates for the positions of finance and information ministers. They said he will assign the new ministry to a deputy in the nation's council (parliament) with other deputies, Qassem El-Kharaffi, (an ex-finance minister), Ahmed El-Nassar, while Abdel Wahab El-Haroon had presented personal reasons for not taking this post.
The sources said the name of central bank governor Shiekh Salem Abdel- Aziz El-Salam, has been mentioned for that post too, but the Information Ministry could be assigned to a man from the ruling family other than former Information Minister Shiekh Saud El-Sabah.
Deputy Mubarak El-Dowila said that Shiekh Saud's efforts indicate his adherence to the ministry's seat. The government resigned as a parliamentary no-confidence vote was pending against the information minister.
Representative Adnan Abdel Samad said he expects a change in the ministerial positions and said the resignation of the government was a good opportunity to reconsider the ministerial formation and attain a powerful government on a level required by local and regional developments.
He said some of the reasons behind the failure of the previous governments were due to choosing ministers based on political loyalties and trying to frame the ministerial formation on the basis of satisfying some political factions or parties through the appointment of ministers from them.