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Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has appointed his son Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed as Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.
Sheikh Mohamed announced the appointment on Wednesday, March 29, ten months after assuming the UAE presidency, naming his brother Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed as the UAE’s vice president.
The move is widely seen as a preparation for his son Sheikh Khalid to succeed him as president of the United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s most oil-rich countries.
As such, they are influential members of OPEC, the global oil cartel that controls the price of this important commodity. At a time when one of the world’s largest sources of oil is effectively cut off from its biggest markets in the West, including the United States and the European Union, the rest of OPEC must maintain a solid leadership position.
The United Arab Emirates is a country created in its current form in January 1972 – a federation of seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain.
Abu Dhabi is the federal capital, and the new appointments are widely seen as an attempt to centralize power “in an inclusive way,” said Cinzia Bianco, a visiting fellow at the European Union’s Council on Foreign Relations.
Other appointments announced Wednesday included Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed and Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed as deputy rulers of Abu Dhabi. The two royals are brothers of the current UAE president, who is also the ruler of Abu Dhabi.
Coincidentally, the capital of the UAE is also the home of King Juan Carlos of Spain, who moved there in August 2020, not long before his first grandson, Felipe Juan Froyland de Marichalal ( Eldest son of Princess Elena) also joined here.
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