Kuwait's Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Tuesday reappointed former Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah to form a new cabinet, the official KUNA news agency said.

This was the seventh time that Sheikh Nasser, a senior member of the ruling Sabah family, was designated to form a new cabinet since he took office in 2006.

The cabinet, led by Sheikh Nasser, resigned last Thursday to avoid three ministers being grilled in parliament, as tensions between the Gulf emirates' parliament and government escalated.

Motions to question the oil-rich emirate's foreign, oil and economic ministers were null and void after the cabinet resigned.

Sheikh Nasser himself also survived twice non-cooperation vote against him in the past five years launched by opposition lawmakers in the outspoken parliament. In December 2009, Sheikh Nasser became the first prime minister in Kuwait's history to face a non-confidence vote.

Opposition lawmakers have said after the cabinet resignation that they would request grilling against Sheikh Nasser if he was reappointed.

Kuwait is the first Gulf Arab state to adopt a constitution in 1962 and an elected parliament was born the following year. The parliament was bestowed the right to question ministers or vote them out of office.

The long-standing tensions between the government and parliament have delayed major economic reforms in the emirate, which sits around ten percent of the global proven oil reserves.

The amir, who has the final say in the Gulf emirate's politics, has dissolved parliament three times in the past in efforts to put an end to the political crisis.

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