The Tunisian president shall dismiss Kamal Al -Madouri and appoint Sarah Al -Zafarani as a prime minister

Tunisian President Qais Saeda, Prime Minister Kamal Al -Mudouri, and appointed to him, was appointed to his successor, Minister of Equipment and Housing Sarah Al -Zaafrani Al -Zazari, according to what the presidency announced on Friday morning, without clarifying the reasons for this procedure.

The presidency said in a statement that Sa`id “decided to end the duties of Kamal al -Mudawouri, the prime minister, and the appointment of Mrs. Sarah Al -Zaafarani Al -Zabzari to succeed him,” noting that the president also decided to appoint Salah Al -Zuwari to succeed the Minister of Equipment and Housing while the other ministers remained in their positions.

On February 6, Sa`id also sacked, in the middle of the night, the Minister of Finance, Siham Namsas, Judge Mishkat Salama Al -Khalidi.

The head of the new government, 62, who speaks Arabic, French, English and German, is the second woman to lead the government in Tunisia after Najla Bouden, who had held the position from October 2021 to August 2023.

Boden was removed in a period in which the economic and social situation was worsened in particular, with the loss of many basic materials such as the subsidized bread, and a previous framework was appointed to the central bank Ahmed Al -Hashani, which was sacked last summer last summer.

Al -Zarfarani has been Minister of Equipment and Housing since 2021, and she has a master’s degree in geotechnology.

Saeed has expressed his dissatisfaction in the past weeks and many times about the work of his government.

Prior to the dismissal decision, the Tunisian president stressed at the National Security Council meeting, “It is time to hold any official with full responsibility, whatever its position and the nature of its complicity.”

He added in a video clip published by the presidency, “It is sufficient for the defect and the intolerance of responsibility, and it is sufficient for the abuse of citizens … criminal gangs working in public facilities,” referring to the deterioration of public services and the frequency of Tunisian complaints.

He also drew attention to what he described as “lobbies and carts, you find in the government’s palace to serve and protect them.”

He stressed that the “turmoil” that the country witnessed in the recent period “coincided with the beginning of the trial of the conspirators on the security of the state and the image does not need clarification.”