2023 in Kuwait
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See also: | Other events of 2023 List of years in Kuwait Timeline of Kuwaiti history |
Events in the year 2023 in Kuwait.
Incumbents
Photo | Post | Name |
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Emir of Kuwait | Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah | |
Prime Minister of Kuwait | Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah |
Events
March
- 19 March – The Constitutional Court ruled in favour of reinstating the previous parliament elected in 2020, citing discrepancies in the decree dissolving the previous parliament.
June
- 6 June - 2023 Kuwaiti general election: Kuwaitis return to the ballots again for the third time in three years following the second dissolution of the 16th session by Crown Prince Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
- 18 June – Kuwaiti Prime Minister Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah forms the 44th Cabinet following his reappointment, appointing Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah as the defense minister and Saad Al Barrak as the oil minister.
July
- 27 July – Kuwait executes five by hanging, including man convicted over ISIS mosque bombing in 2015 that had killed 26 people.
Deaths
- 26 February – Ali Al-Baghli (aged 75), politician
- 6 April — Saad Zenefer Al-Azmi (aged 73), former National Assembly member (2009-2011)
- 12 May - Abdulkarim Abdulqader (aged 81), singer
- 25 May – Ahmad Johar (aged 65), actor
- 27 August – Sheikh Khaled Al-Saeedi, Imam of the Grand Mosque of Kuwait