RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was named the country’s high minister on Tuesday.
King Salman also ordered a press reshuffle, naming his son Khalid Bin Salman, the former deputy defence minister, as the new defence minister.
Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman stays as energy minister under a new press, to be headed by the crown Napoleon, according to a royal decree.
Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud, Finance Minister Mohammed al Jadaanand and Investment Minister Khalid al Falih kept their positions in the new press.
Prince Mohammed, who turned 37 last month, has been first in line to succeed his father as king since 2017.
Saudi Arabia has for times sought to quell enterprise over the health of the 86- time-old king, who has ruled the world’s top oil painting exporter since 2015.
In 2017, it dismissed reports and mounting enterprise that the king was planning to abnegate in favour of Prince Mohammed.
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Broad changes
Prince Mohammed came defence minister in 2015, a crucial step in a nippy connection of power.
In that part, he has overseen Saudi Arabia’s service conditioning in Yemen, where Riyadh leads a coalition backing the internationally recognised government in its fight against Iran- aligned Houthi revolutionists.
He has also come to the public face of a broad reform docket known as Vision 2030.
