Tunisia: president appoints new government 11 weeks after power grab

Tunisia: president appoints new government 11 weeks after power grab

Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied, has appointed a new government by decree, 11 weeks after firing the last one in a power grab, as the country faces acute economic and political crises.

State television broadcast a swearing-in ceremony of the cabinet headed by Najla Bouden, the north African country’s first female prime minister.

Bouden said in her first public speech since her nomination that fighting corruption would be the most important aim of the new government.