Events in the year 2023 in Kuwait.

Incumbents

Holidays

: * 1 January – Sunday –

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* 19 February – Sunday – The Prophet's Ascension * 25 February – Saturday – National Day * 26 February – Sunday – Liberation Day * 27 February – Monday – Public Sector & Bank Holiday in lieu of Kuwait National Day * 21–25 April –

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* 27 June – Tuesday – Arafat Day * 28–30 June – Eid al-Adha * 1–2 July – Eid al-Adha * 20 July – Thursday –

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(In lieu of Wednesday 19 July) * 28 September – Thursday – The Prophet's Birthday * 17–19 December – Mourning for Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah * 31 December – Sunday – Public Sector & Bank Holiday in lieu of

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Events

March

*19 March – The Constitutional Court ruled in favour of reinstating the previous parliament elected in

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, citing discrepancies in the decree dissolving the previous parliament.

June

* 6 June -

2023 Kuwaiti general election Snap general elections were held in Kuwait on 6 June 2023 to elect 50 of the 65 members of the National Assembly. The elections took place following the annulment of the results of the 2022 snap elections by the Constitutional Court on 19 Marc ...

: 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 Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ( ar, الشيخ مشعل الأحمد الجابر الصباح, translit=ash-Shaykh Misha`al al-ʾAḥmad al-Jābir aṣ-Ṣabāḥ; also spelled Meshal, Mishaal or Meshaal; born 27 September 1940) is the Cro ...

. * 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 Saad Al-Barrak is a Kuwaiti businessman, entrepreneur, and investor. He is currently the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Oil and Minister of State for Economic & Investment Affairs. Al-Barrak's career started as an engineer at International Tu ...

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.

November

* 26 November – Kuwait's highest court sentences former

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and

interior minister An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

Khaled Al Jarrah Al Sabah Khaled Al Jarrah Al Sabah (, born 1953) is a Kuwaiti lieutenant general, who retired from military services after being appointed as minister of defense to succeed retired Lt General Sheikh Ahmed Al Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah in the post. He was de ...

to seven years in prison for mishandling military funds while former Prime Minister Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, who faced similar charges, is only ordered by the court to return the funds that he mismanaged.

December

* 16 December – ** Emir of Kuwait Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dies at 86. His half-brother, Crown Prince

, succeeds him as the new emir. ** The government announced three-days holiday across the country and 40 days mourning with flags lowered at half-mast. Malls and Complexes were closed from 16th to 18th, other than essentials. Ministry and State Institutions had holidays from 17th to 19th. Flags lowered at half-mast at all ministries, state agencies and main roads for a 40 day period. * 20 December – ** Sheikh

took oath at a special National Assembly session becoming the 17th Emir of the State of Kuwait. ** Emir Sheikh

receives government resignation from Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.

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 - (aged 81), singer * 25 May –

Ahmad Johar Ahmad Johar ( ar, أحمد جوهر; 29 March 1958 – 25 May 2023) was a Kuwaiti actor, director and writer. Biography Johar received Kuwait's State Merit Award for his work as an actor. Johar was hospitalised on 21 June 2020 after suffering ...

(aged 65), actor * 27 August – Sheikh Khaled Al-Saeedi, Imam of the Grand Mosque of Kuwait * 15 December – Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain (aged 87), poet, writer and businessman * 16 December – Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (aged 86), the 16th Ruler of Kuwait and the 7th Emir of the State of Kuwait, (b. 1937)

References

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