Since the President of the Republic announced on the night of July 25, 2021, the dismissal of former Prime Minister Hisham Al-Meshishi, the features of the tenth person who will head the government have not yet been determined under exceptional circumstances at the political and legal level, including the freezing of the work of the Parliament and the President of the Republic assuming the presidency of the executive authority.
Three weeks without a prime minister
In the absence of the presidency, the President of the Republic, Qais Saeed, appointed yesterday, Wednesday, August 18, 2021, Director of National Security, Sami Al-Hishri, Director General of National Security, and Shukri Al-Riyahi, as commander of the National Guard, in addition to several other appointments at the level of the sovereign ministries, including the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and the Ministry of Economy and Finance. investment.
We also note that during the last three weeks, Tunisia witnessed a series of dismissals of the prime minister and dozens of officials, including governors and advisors.
For his part, the advisor to the President of the Republic, Walid Al-Hajam, confirmed on Monday, August 16, that the name of the appropriate prime minister will be announced at the appropriate time.
Al-Hajam expressed, in a statement to the national radio, his understanding of the requests to expedite the disclosure of the name of the new prime minister, stressing that the Presidency of the Republic “sees what some consider a delay in announcing this as a matter of waiting,” as he put it.
Who is the right person?
On August 13, 2021, the Executive Office of the Ennahda Movement expressed the necessary and immediate need to assign a government of “national competencies” and lift the siege on the headquarters of the government in the Kasbah and stop obstructing the public facility, which disrupts the normal functioning of the state’s wheels, as she put it.
The Secretary-General of the Popular Current, Zuhair Hamdi, considered that the tasks at hand are more important than the personality of the prime minister, as the prime minister will carry out a number of tasks entrusted to him during this transitional period, stressing that this stage requires focusing mainly on determining the tasks of the prime minister that you will work on during the period. The most important of these is the completion of the accountability process and the provision of the appropriate climate for the judiciary to play its role in the accountability process for all crimes and breaches that occurred in the past years.
Our interlocutor added that a new electoral law must be drawn up that provides a new political climate that breaks with all the political faces and old practices we have witnessed, in addition to a number of burning economic and health issues, as he put it.
Hamdi stressed that these tasks require a prime minister and a government team capable of working seriously on these basic files.
An economist or a politician!
In this context, Professor of Economics at the Tunisian University, Dr. Reda El-Shakandali, said, in a statement to “jdd tunisie” today, August 19, 2021, that the next prime minister must be an economic figure, because the health challenges we managed to overcome through successive progress at the level of vaccination thanks to the Minister A specialist in health matters, which requires the appointment of an economist to head the government to confront economic challenges, as he put it.
Al-Sakandali expressed that the features of this economic personality must be carriers of new economic approaches, because it is not possible to reach new solutions with the same old visions and procedures.
As for Adnan Hajji, the frozen MP from the Gafsa region and the head of the Central Council of the Tunisia-Imam Movement party, he stressed that the leadership of the government and all ministries are political functions, meaning that the issue is subject to a political choice.
Our interviewer said that the prime minister must have a political orientation and choice, and his team implements these ideas by appointing advisers and specialists in each file.
As for the discussion about who is the appropriate person to head the new government, Al-Hajji said that “the discussion about an economic, financial or independent personality is useless… He must be a prime minister with a political orientation with a reformist and social thought.”
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