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Constituent Assembly Approves Prime Minister-Designate’s Proposed Cabinet

Amira Masrour | 13 March 2013 | 1 Comment

The proposed cabinet of Tunisian Prime Minister-Designate Ali Laarayedh received this afternoon the approval of a majority of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA). 139 NCA members approved and 45 rejected Laarayedh’s new government while 13 abstained from voting. In total, 20 members were absent from today’s voting session. Laarayedh submitted yesterday the list of ministers to NCA members [...]

Prime Minister-Designate Names Members of New Cabinet

Amira Masrour | 08 March 2013 | 4 Comments

Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh announced Friday afternoon the composition of his new ministerial cabinet. The figures, who will head key ministries, are Lotfi Ben Jeddou as interior minister, Nadhir Ben Ammou as justice minister, Othman Jerandi as foreign affairs minister, and Rachid Sabbagh as defense minister. In such a way, Ennahdha party met the demands, made by [...]

Survey Finds Low Levels of Trust for Political Leaders

Bernard Yaros | 08 March 2013 | 2 Comments

As the composition of the new government is set to be announced Friday, a recent poll by market research company Sigma Conseil sheds some light on the current political attitudes of Tunisians. The survey’s most significant finding was that Tunisians expressed low levels of trust in political leaders. Out of the poll’s 1,616 participants, 59% [...]

Prime Minister-Designate to Announce New Government

Farah Samti | 08 March 2013 | 0 Comments

Tunisian Prime Minister-designate Ali Laarayedh is to announce Tunisia’s new interim government Friday following two weeks of negotiations over the cabinet reshuffle under his leadership, and months of talks under former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. Two weeks ago, Laarayedh was appointed as the new prime minister in charge of forming a new government following the [...]

Ali Laarayedh’s New Government Loses Two Potential Allies

Amira Masrour | 07 March 2013 | 0 Comments

Wafa Movement and the Freedom and Dignity bloc officially announced that they will not participate in the incoming government of Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh. In a statement yesterday on its official Facebook page, Wafa Movement spelled out its desire to distance itself from the policy of partisan quotas that, its members claim, has been adopted by the ruling [...]

Minister of Defense Resigns Amidst Lagging Cabinet Reshuffle Talks

Asma Ghribi | 07 March 2013 | 0 Comments

The ongoing negotiations over a forthcoming cabinet reshuffle were marked by another high-profile resignation Tuesday. Minister of Defense Abdelkarim Zbidi decided to leave his post, citing a continuous lack of vision on the part of the coalition government. “Tunisia is not on the right path,” asserted Zbidi Tuesday in an interview with Tunisian television channel Nessma [...]

Ruling Islamist Party to Form Inclusive Government

Amira Masrour | 25 February 2013 | 2 Comments

In the ongoing process of forming a new government, Rached Ghannouchi, founder of the Ennahdha party, has announced that the ruling coalition will be expanded from three to five parties and that the ministries of interior, justice and foreign affairs should remain politically neutral. Ghannouchi told Tunisian news agency TAP Friday that the new ruling [...]

Former Tunisian PM’s Stance Exposes Discord within Ruling Islamist Party

Farah Samti | 23 February 2013 | 6 Comments

The recent discord between former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali and his party revealed dissension within Ennahdha, Tunisia’s ruling party that rose to power in part by uniting the moderate and more conservative strains of Islamist politicians. The divisions between Jebali, Ennahdha’s secretary general, and the party leadership first surfaced in the wake of the assassination [...]

Ali Laarayedh Tunisia’s New Prime Minister

Farah Samti | 22 February 2013 | 6 Comments

Former Minister of the Interior Ali Laarayedh has officially been assigned as the new Tunisian Prime Minister following the resignation of Hamadi Jebali. A member of Ennahdha’s Shura Council, Zoubeier Chehoudi, told Tunisia Live that Laarayedh is to meet with the president in the next few hours to get a formal approval for his new [...]

Political Turmoil Endangers Tunisian Economy

Farah Samti | 21 February 2013 | 6 Comments

Tunisia’s ongoing political crisis, fueled by tensions over the cabinet reshuffle and magnified by the assassination of opposition leader Chokri Belaid, may not have critically affected the country’s already ailing economy, but its indirect consequences are already revealing themselves. The country’s economy faced serious challenges even before the current political tension; but it has started [...]

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