Among the ministers Figure Samir Said, a banker, named in the economy and planning. Lawyer Taoufik Charfeddine is, again named inside.
Le Monde with AFP
Eleven weeks after taking full powers by the President, Kaïs Saïed, Tunisia has endowed on Monday, October 11 of a new government, announced the presidency in a communiqué
For the first time in the history of the country, the training of the government has been entrusted to a woman, the academic Najla Bouden, but this one and his team will enjoy considerably reduced prerogatives after the coup de force Mr. Saïed. M me Bouden was appointed on September 29, more than two months after the limogear, on July 25, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi by the Head of State, who also froze Parliament and taken in hand the judiciary.
In a speech during the sworn delivery, M me BOUDEN, 63, said that “the fight against corruption will be the most important objective” of its government, which has 25 members In addition to his leader. Among them, Samir Said, a banker, was appointed Minister of Economy and Planning. Counsel Taoufik Charfeddine, he finds the portfolio of the interior, of which he has already been the holder between September 2020 and January 2021.
Manifestations against the President
The announcement of the new government occurs in the aftermath of a new event in Tunis against the exception measures decided by Mr. Saïed, attended by at least 6,000 people in the capital.
After two months of uncertainties, Mr. Saïed promulgated on 22 September a decree formizing the suspension of several chapters of the Constitution and introducing “exceptional measures”, supposed to be provisional, the time to carry out political reforms, of which Amendments to the 2014 Constitution. In the midst of the socio-economic and health crisis and after months of political blocking, Mr. Saïed had invoked an “imminent danger” to justify his actions, denounced as a “coup d’état” by his Opponents and non-governmental organizations.