KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s Finance Minister Manaf Abdulaziz Al-Hajjri has submitted his resignation after three months in office, according to a report in the local Al-Qabas newspaper.
The resignation was approved by Ahmed Al-Sadoun, Kuwait’s national assembly speaker during a meeting on Tuesday.
Al-Hajjri’s resignation was accepted the following day through a decree, which named the country’s oil minister as the acting ffnance minister, state-run news agency KUNA reported.
As per the decree, signed by Crown Prince Sheikh Mishaal Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, oil minister and minister of state for economic and investment affairs Saad Al-Barak took up the post.
Al-Hajjri was appointed as finance minister in April by the prime minister during a cabinet reshuffle.
A general election in September had delivered a mandate for change, bringing 27 new lawmakers to the 50-member assembly.
However, in March, Kuwait’s Constitutional Court annulled the decree dissolving the previous parliament and reinstated it.
A few weeks later, the ruling Al-Sabah family dissolved that parliament for a second time, setting up the most recent vote, in which most of the lawmakers elected in September regained their seats.
