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The Council of State ( Arabic: مجلس الدولة العماني Majlis ad-Dawla al-ʿUmāniyyi) is the upper house of the Council of Oman. It has 83 members all of whom are appointed by the Sultan. The other house is the Consultative Assembly ( Majlis al-Shura ).
Politics of Oman. The Council of Oman is a bicameral parliament, made up of the members of the State Council and the Consultation Council, as stipulated in Article 58 of the Basic Law of the State. [1] It is considered to be the main Parliament in Oman. It assists the government in drawing up the general policies of the state.
Politics of Oman. The Politics of Oman take place in a framework of an absolute monarchy, where the Sultan of Oman is both head of state and head of government. The Sultan is hereditary, who appoints a cabinet to assist him. The sultan also serves as the supreme commander of the armed forces and prime minister.
The Omani legislature is the bicameral Council of Oman, consisting of an upper chamber, the Council of State (Majlis ad-Dawlah) and a lower chamber, the Consultative Assembly (Majlis al-Shura). [147] Political parties are banned, as are any affiliations based on religion. [143]
This is a list of chairmen of the Council of State of Oman since December 1997, when the Council was established. [1] Name. Took office. Left office. Notes. Sheikh Hamoud bin Abdullah al-Harthi. December 1997. 1 March 2004.
Abdulmalik Al Khalili (born 1942 [1]) is a politician from Oman who has been serving as Chairman [2] [3] of the Council of State of Oman [4] from 18 August 2020. [1] In 1986 he graduated with a degree in business administration from the University of Central Florida. [5] He was the CEO of the pension fund at the Diwan of Royal Court and a ...
Cabinet Ministers from the Ministry of Information, Sultanate of Oman; Oman from the CIA list of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members; Oman's ruler dismisses ministers, Al Jazeera English, 6 March 2011; Sultan fires ministers amid Oman unrest, Financial Times, 7 March 2011
On 11 January 2020, Oman state TV said the Royal Family Council, in a letter to the Defense Council, had decided to defer to the choice that Qaboos named in his will, and thus had opened the letter by Qaboos naming his successor, announcing shortly that Haitham bin Tariq is the country's ruling sultan. [32] Haitham has two sons and two daughters.