The Interior Ministry desired to explain the matter of the special passport given to MP Seifeddine Makhlouf.
In a statement, the ministry refused having awarded a diplomatic passport to Makhlouf, revealing that the passport recently received is a special passport issued in order to perform an official mission to the government. ‘foreigner on the basis of a mission order issued by the department concerned.
It added that the border police services of the Ministry of the Interior are responsible for removing this passport from the person concerned upon his return to Tunisian territory.
The ministry additionally recalled that the granting of diplomatic passports befalls under the prerogatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, emphasising that it works in complete neutrality by providing services to those who request them, whether citizens, representatives of the people. or others “.
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