Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah
Prime Minister of Kuwait
Incumbent
Assumed office
07 February 2006
Monarch: Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Preceded by: Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Born: 1940
Religion: Islam
Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah (born 1940) is the Prime Minister of Kuwait. He was appointed Prime Minister on February 7, 2006 by the Amir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. In 1964, Sheikh Nasser graduated from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) with a BA degree in Political Science and Economics. Before becoming Prime Minister, Sheikh Nasser served in the past as an ambassador to Iran and Afghanistan, the minister of information, minister of social affairs and labour, minister of state for foreign affairs and minister of the royal court. Married with two sons, he is fluent in Arabic, English, French and Persian.
The Amir re-appointed Sheikh Nasser as prime minister on March 6, 2007, after the previous government resigned on March 4 in a move observers believe was aimed at avoiding a no-confidence motion against Health Minister Sheikh Ahmed Al Abdullah Al Sabah. Ten MPs presented the motion in February over suspected financial and administrative breaches at the ministry. The vote was due to have taken place in parliament on March 5 and Sheikh Ahmad, a member of the ruling family, would have had to step down if legislators had voted against him. In December, Information Minister Muhammad Al Sanousi resigned a day before he was due to face questioning in parliament.
In November 16, 2008, Islamist MPs Waleed AlـTabtabaie, Mohammed AlـMutair, and Mohammed Hayef AlـMutairi filed a request to grill Prime Minister Nasser for allowing prominent Iranian Shiite cleric Mohammed al-Fali to enter Kuwait despite a legal ban. [1] On November 25, the cabinet resigned, and on December 17 the Emir reappointed Nasser as Prime Minister of the new cabinet. [2] And with the forming of the new cabinet, Nasser was no longer required to face the grilling which had been filed with the old cabinet.
Public Dispute with Speaker Al-Kharafi
On November 3, 2007, Parliamentary Speaker Jassem Al-Kharafi told the pan-Arab Arabiya television in an interview that he had “question marks” about the prime minister’s decisions. A transcript of the interview was published in Alrai daily, which included Al-Kharafi’s comment that too many reshuffles necessitate “a review and an evaluation of what measures should be taken.” Al-Kharafi said the reshuffle should not have been put off for the whole summer and that it indicated a “policy of patching” up problems, rather than solving them.
