The government of oil-rich Kuwait resigned on Monday following a bitter dispute with opposition MPs, lawmaker Khaled al-Sultan said. “The Kuwaiti cabinet has resigned and the resignation has been accepted by the emir,” the Islamist opposition MP told reporters outside parliament. “We are waiting for the appointment of a new prime minister before parliament is dissolved in order to be assured of fair elections,” the lawmaker said. Parliament speaker Jassem al-Khorafi declined to comment on the decision, but said he had not been informed about dissolving parliament. The announcement came after Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah chaired an emergency meeting of the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad Al-Sabah to discuss the emirate’s latest political crisis.
