Tunisia-EXCLUSIVE: Composition of PM Mechichi new reduced government

Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi appears to have, definitively dropped the idea of ​​the cabinet reshuffle, in the light of the blockade and the veto by the President of the Republic.

This does not indicate that the PM will retain the ministers he has decided to get rid of with the exclusion of one or two that he will keep, Mechichi has concluded, after sacking the former ministers, to charge the sixteen left with the interim departments that will remain vacant.

Therefore, Mechichi intends to entrust the interim justice to the minister responsible for the civil service. He will retain the Interior Ministry under his personal control. He will also entrust the Ministry of Industry to the Minister of the Economy or the Minister of Commerce. Besides that of Energy.

The Ministry of State Domains will be given to the current Minister of Religious Affairs or, at the limit, he perceives no problem in maintaining the current Minister.

The Ministry of the Environment and Local Affairs would be entrusted to the Minister of Equipment, or else it would integrate under Kasbah. The sports ministry will be given to the current secretary of state who is already in office. The Ministry of Cultural Affairs will stay under the control of the Minister of Tourism. While the Minister of Health could continue his mission. As for the Minister of Agriculture the head of government is still scanning for the right personality.

Mechichi will, in theory, declare this recomposition of his government on Monday, February 15, knowing that, until then, this composition remains subject to plausible changes.