 The Kuwaiti cabinet has asked for a special parliamentary session on Tuesday to debate the removal of the new ailing emir from power, a Kuwaiti deputy says.
| "Nurse! He's doing it again!" |
The formal request deepens a dispute within the ruling family over whether Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, who took over on January 15 after the death of the emir, his cousin Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah. However critics argue that Sheikh Saad al-Sabah, 76, is too ill to be in charge of the emirate and corrspondents say a rift is widening within the powerful ruling family.
"More taste!"
"Less filling!" |
Sheikh Saad has made it clear [he] wants the role, although in recent years he has played little part in public life. He appeared briefly at the late emir's funeral, in a wheel chair, without speaking.
| Rumor has it he can't, at least not speak and make sense at the same time... |
The cabinet and many ruling family members support the prime minister and de facto ruler, Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah. While also 76, he is in good health and has overseen the everyday running of the emirate as prime minister for some years. The al-Sabah family has ruled the tiny oil-rich emirate for decades and has never undergone a political crisis of this magnitude. |