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After suffering a stroke in 2001, Sheikh Jābir al-Aḥmad al-Ṣabāḥ, the ruling emir, carried out only few public activities. Following Sheikh Jābir’s death in 2006, crown prince Sheikh Saʿd al-ʿAbd Allāh al-Sālim al-Ṣabāḥ briefly acceded as emir. Although considered too ill to rule, Sheikh Saʿd, who had been crown prince since the late 1970s, sparked a political crisis when he refused to abdicate in favour of Sheikh Ṣabāḥ al-Aḥmad al-Jābir al-Ṣabāḥ, the country’s former foreign minister and already its de facto leader. The succession crisis was resolved after nine days, when the Kuwaiti parliament voted to remove him from office moments before Saʿd himself agreed to abdicate.Explanation:
