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The appointment of additional royals to Kuwait’s new cabinet, including a convicted defence minister, looks like a push by the ruling family to show unity and reassert power as it wrestles with an opposition-controlled parliament. Rivalries within the royal family and feuding between government and the elected National Assembly have hampered reforms for years in the OPEC member oil producer.
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Kuwait's opposition held its ground in the country's third parliamentary election in 2-1/2 years but a significant number of neutral lawmakers could now tilt the balance of power towards the government, opening an opportunity to launch fiscal reforms.
Neither side has given details, but the Department of Migrant Workers stopped the deployment of newly-hired domestic workers to Kuwait in February "until more safeguards are in place for their protection and welfare."