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(Royal family members, ministers, religious figures and scholars and crowds of ordinary citizens congratulated His Royal Highness Prince Muqrin and voiced their oath of allegiance to him as the second-in-line to the throne.(Reuters))[/caption]His Royal Highness Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, recently appointed as the second-in-line to the Saudi throne, began receiving oaths of allegiance on Sunday.
Royal family members, ministers, religious figures and scholars and crowds of ordinary citizens congratulated His Royal Highness Prince Muqrin and voiced their oath of allegiance to him as the second-in-line to the throne.
His Holiness The King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz issued a decree on Thursday appointing His Royal Highness Prince Muqrin as His Royal Highness Deputy Crown Prince and confirming him as the successor to the current His Royal Highness Crown Prince Salman should he become His Holiness The King.
His Royal Highness Prince Muqrin is the youngest son of Saudi Arabia's founder, His Holiness The King Abdulaziz al-Saud.
“His Holiness The King Abdullah appoints His Royal Highness Prince Muqrin as king in case the positions of king and crown prince become vacant,” a Royal Court statement broadcast on Al Arabiya News Channel said.
The statement said the decree cannot be altered “in any way or by any person, reason or interpretation.”
His Royal Highness Prince Muqrin will continue in his current job as the second deputy prime minister, the statement added.
His Royal Highness Prince Muqrin was born in 1945 and has occupied several senior positions in the kingdom.
Recently he served as a special advisor to His Holiness The King Abdullah.
From 2005 to 2012 he served as the head of the general intelligence.
From 1980 to 1999 he served as governor of Hail province and was later appointed as the governor of Madinah.
His Royal Highness Prince Muqrin went to elementary school in the capital Riyadh and joined the Saudi Royal Air Force in 1964.
He graduated from the UK with a degree in aeronautics in 1968.
He worked in the air force until 1980.
(Staff Writer, Al Arabiya News)
(Al Arabiya News, 30 Sunday March 2014 The Roman)
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