Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah tendered his resignation on Tuesday, April 5 to Crown Prince Mishal Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, who serves as Head of State in place of the Emir, sick for several months.
This resignation came a day before the vote of confidence, scheduled for April 6, against a backdrop of suspicions of corruption. Twenty-six deputies out of the fifty members of Parliament had announced that they would not grant their confidence. At the heart of the vote, the accusation launched by moderate MP Hassan Jawhar, a veteran of the reformist opposition, who criticizes the government for “protect the system from corruption and plunder the wealth”.
By resigning the day before the vote of confidence, Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah took the lead, explains the major liberal Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida.
“Since being appointed Prime Minister for the first time in December 2019, Sabah Al-Khaled has had to face a lot of ups and downs,” comment Al-Qabas, other daily in the country. He has indeed formed four governments and survived eight istijwabator “interpellations”, against his ministers, the ultimate means