KUWAIT ( HALBEEG NEWS) – Kuwait’s Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah was named emir by the country’s cabinet to succeed his half brother Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah who was on the post since 2006.
State television carried an address by Anas Khalid al-Saleh, Kuwait’s interior minister and deputy prime minister, announcing Sheikh Nawaf had taken the position just hours after Sheikh Sabah’s death.
The new emir will be sworn in on Wednesday at 11 am, parliament speaker Marzouq al-Ghanim said in a tweet.
The cabinet announcement was read out on state television. Under the Gulf Arab state’s constitution, the crown prince automatically becomes emir and assumes power after taking oath in parliament.
Sheikh Nawaf, 83, had served as the crown prince since 2006, jumping a traditional order of alternating rule between the Al Jaber and the Al Salim branches of the country’s ruling family.
He also served as Kuwait’s defense minister beginning until 1990, when Iraqi under Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and occupied the nation for seven months.
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