Английская Википедия:Essa Al-Kandari

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Essa Ahmad Al-Kandari (Шаблон:Lang-ar; born 10 February 1963) is a Kuwaiti politician who has served in the National Assembly since 2023. He is also the current Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of National Assembly & Cabinet Affairs serving since 2013. Al-Kandari is the former deputy speaker of the 2016 National Assembly. He was the former Minister of Communications, Municipality, Housing, Social Affairs & Awqaf.

Political career

Essa Al-Kandari was born on February 10, 1963, in Kuwait. He has a diploma from the Commercial Institute on the speciality of Commercial Banks. Before politics he used to work in Kuwait Airways. He first ran for parliament in the February 2012 election in the first district. He lost getting only 4858 votes. He won his first election in 2013 getting 3326 votes.[1] On 8 August 2013, he was appointed in the 33rd cabinet as Minister of Communications.[2] He add the Ministry of the Municipality to his portfolio in January 5. On 16 October 2016, Essa resigned from the government in order to run for the 2016 election.[3]

Essa won in the 2016 election with 4077 votes.[4] He moved away from governmental positions running for deputy speaker position. He won the position in December 11 after getting 32 votes compared to Jamaan Al-Harbash’s 31.[5] He ran again in the 2020 election winning with 3398 votes. In December 14, he was appointed as Minister of Social Affairs and Minister of Awqaf & Islamic Affairs.[6] He was removed from the Ministry of Social Affairs on 2 March 2021. In August 1, Essa got appointed in the 40th cabinet as Minister of State for Housing & National Affairs.[7] He resigned on August 29, 2022 in order to run in the 2022 election.[8]

Essa Al-Kandari won getting 3683 votes in 2022 election.[9] After the annulment of 2022 session & dissolution of the 2020 session, he ran in the 2023 election. He won with 3185 votes.[10] He was appointed in the 43rd Cabinet as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the National Assembly & Cabinet Affairs on June 18.[11]

Election Results

Election Results
Year Votes polled
2012 (Feb) 4,858 (L)
2013 3,326 (W)
2016 4,077 (W)
2020 3,398 (W)
2022 3,683 (W)
2023 3,185 (W)

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