Kuwait forms new government headed by Ahmad Al Saba

Kuwait formed a new cabinet headed by Ahmad Abdullah Al Sabah, the Kuwaiti state news agency said on Sunday.

Emad Al Atiqi, Anwar Ali Al Mudhaf and Abdullah Ali Al Yahya retained their posts as oil, finance and foreign ministers respectively.

Kuwait's emir on Friday dissolved parliament, state media reported.

The state's ruler Sheikh Meshaal Al Ahmad Al Sabah attributed his move to the "interference" of some MPS in the emir's powers and others imposing "conditions" on helping to form a government.

"We have faced difficulties and obstacles that cannot be tolerated," he said in a speech broadcast on state television.

He accused some lawmakers of "going as far as to interfere in the heart of the prince's powers and his choice of his crown prince, forgetting that this is an explicit constitutional right of the prince."

Parliament, elected in early April, was to meet for the first time on Monday. But a number of MPS have refused to participate in the government.

Kuwait's constitution requires that at least one deputy hold a ministerial portfolio until the government formation is completed. But the prime minister-designate has been unable to convince any lawmaker to take part.

Sheikh Meshaal said the failure to form a government was the result of "the dictates and conditions of some" lawmakers.

Badr Al Saif, a Kuwait University political analyst wrote on X, the former Twitter, that the emir had taken a "historic step", only seen before in Kuwait in 1976 and 1986.