{"id":11005,"date":"2022-09-28T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T12:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=11005"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T12:17:12","slug":"crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-appointed-as-saudi-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-appointed-as-saudi-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appointed as Saudi prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appointed as Saudi prime minister. Saudi Arabia s powerful crown prince has been named prime minister, a post traditionally held by the king, in a government shuffle announced Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed bin Salman, who has been the kingdom s de facto ruler for several years, was previously serving as deputy prime minister under King Salman as well as defence minister.<\/p>\n<p>He is being replaced as defence minister by his younger brother, Khalid bin Salman, who was previously deputy defence minister.<\/p>\n<p>The heads of other critical ministries, including interior, foreign and energy, remained in place, according to a royal decree from King Salman published by the official <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spagov\">Saudi Press Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Mohammed, who turned 37 last month, has been first in line to succeed his father as king since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>He became defence minister in 2015, a key step in a swift consolidation of power that saw him take the lead on major portfolios.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">King Salman issues a royal order  to appoint Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as Prime Minister of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaudiArabia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaudiArabia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xFMg7Q0UL0\">pic.twitter.com\/xFMg7Q0UL0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Javeria Siddique (@javerias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/javerias\/status\/1574815910166204416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has for years sought to quell speculation over the health of 86-year-old King Salman, who has ruled the world s top oil exporter since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, it dismissed reports and mounting speculation that the king was planning to abdicate in favour of Prince Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>King Salman has been hospitalised twice so far this year, most recently a one-week stay in May that involved tests including a colonoscopy, according to state media reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appointed as Saudi prime minister. Saudi Arabia s powerful crown prince has been named prime minister, a post traditionally held by the king, in a government shuffle announced Tuesday night. Mohammed bin Salman, who has been the kingdom s de facto ruler for several years, was previously serving as deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[2143,6971,427,6972],"class_list":["post-11005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-2143","tag-king-salman","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saudi-press-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}