Al Hajri was appointed finance minister in April by prime minister during cabinet reshuffle KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait"s Finance Minister Manaf Abdulaziz Al-Hajri has submitted his resignation after three months in office, according to a report in the local Al-Qabas newspaper. The resignation was approved by Ahmed Al-Sadoun, Kuwait’s national assembly speaker during a meeting on Tuesday. Al-Hajri was appointed as finance minister in April by the prime minister during a cabinet reshuffle. A general election in September had delivered a mandate for change, bringing 27 new lawmakers to the 50-member assembly. However, in March, Kuwait’s Constitutional Court annulled the decree dissolving the previous parliament and reinstated it. A few weeks later, the ruling Al-Sabah family dissolved that parliament for a second time, setting up the most recent vote, in which most of the lawmakers elected in September regained their seats.