The rise of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia towards the leadership position

The rise of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia towards the leadership position
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is on his way to the throne, which is only one step away.
When King Salman, 79, ascended the throne of the kingdom, the projects commissioned in years of economic prosperity became a burden, including the Riyadh Financial Center, a new airport in Jeddah and an economic city on the Red Sea coast, the agency said
King Salman quickly appointed Prince Mohammed, a previously unknown figure among his sons, as Crown Prince, and the young prince took charge of the economy and defense portfolios, the agency said
A former Western diplomat said Prince Mohammed was regularly attending meetings with his father, then governor of Riyadh, during his teenage years, but left little impression on anyone around him
A Western adviser said it was "a tough and difficult to understand the mindset of the ordinary Saudi citizen"
While other princes were traveling abroad, Prince Mohammed remained in Saudi Arabia, earning a university degree in law and investing money in the Riyadh stock market
The former Western diplomat said that when Salman became king, the young prince was attending meetings with foreign officials and secretly communicating with his father through the iPad
Bloomberg, the US agency, highlighted Mohammed bin Salman's trip to a place that made him the actual leader of the kingdom
In her report, titled "The Young Crown Prince Who Leads Saudi Arabia," she observed the stages of Ibn Salman's rise to become the actual leader
The report described the Saudi crown prince as the strongest young man in the Middle East
The report says the crown prince has not waited for his turn to take power in Saudi Arabia to make radical changes in his country
Glenn Gary, head of Bloomberg's office in Saudi Arabia, says:
He has been with his father since childhood, so he understands how things go in the royal family, from the internal family book
In 2015, his father took power in Saudi Arabia and gave his favorite son unprecedented power in government. The crown prince became known as the "master of everything".
"This man knows himself as the leader of the state even though his father is still in power," he says
The 32-year-old crown prince has distanced himself from radical Islam through a number of reforms, led by reforms on women. He also began to change his country's oil dependence policy, Bloomberg said
The report also referred to reforms initiated by the Crown Prince, from economic reforms to new taxes, as well as his campaign against Saudi princes and businessmen
Source: Sputnik