This is Aida Hamdi, Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad
Tunisian President Kais Saied has accepted the first resignation in the government of Najla Bouden, that of the Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad, Aida Hamdi.
This is what emerges from a presidential decree published on Tuesday in the Official Journal of the Republic of Tunisia (JORT).
The Tunisian Presidency did not specify the reasons for this resignation, the first within the Bouden government, formed about 5 months ago.
On September 29, the Tunisian Presidency indicated in a press release that it had instructed Najla Bouden, a university professor specializing in geology and little known in political circles, to form the new government, thus becoming the first woman in the country’s history to occupy this post.
On October 11, Bouden announced the formation of his government made up of 24 ministers and a secretary of state, whose resignation has just been announced.
The new government has eight women ministers out of a total of 24 ministerial portfolios, compared to five in the previous government, chaired by Hichem Mechichi.
Tunisia has been suffering, since July 25, from a political crisis, when Kaïs Saïed decided on a series of exceptional measures, concerning, among other things, the freezing of the activities of Parliament, legislation by means of decrees presidential elections and the dismissal of the head of government.
The majority of political and civil forces in Tunisia reject these measures, which they consider to be a “coup d’etat against the Constitution”, while other forces support them, considering that they are a “restoration of the 2011 Revolution process”, which brought down former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
