Kuwait's ailing amir, Shaikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, has agreed to abdicate following an understanding within the ruling family. The abdication paves the way for the prime minister and longtime de facto ruler, Shaikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, to become the country's new amir, and ends an unprecedented public quarrel inside the ruling family. "An agreement has been reached in the family and he will sign the abdication papers tomorrow," parliamentarian Nasser al-Saneh told The Associated Press. He said the two struggling camps of the family met on Monday evening in order to reach a compromise before a parliament session on Tuesday that was to debate cabinet demands that the ailing new amir be ousted in favour of Shaikh Sabah. "The emir, Shaikh Saad, will step down tomorrow," one source in the ruling family circle told Reuters. "There is a settlement, 100 percent." A swearing-in ceremony for Shaikh Saad had been planned for Tuesday evening. It was not yet known when Shaikh Sabah would take the oath as amir.