Tunisia intends to seek a loan program worth $ 4 billion from the International Monetary Fund in talks that begin next week. The information was reported on Friday by Reuters and was confirmed by Hichem Mechichi to the African manager in an exclusive interview given by the head of government to Africanmanager.com and which we will publish this Sunday on video.
As an aside, the Tunisian head of government who had remained, just as calm as he was reasonable, also indicated that he would not expect the IMF to meet all of the Tunisian demand, but rather a little less than all of it. of the Tunisian request. In this vein, it is not excluded that the wish expressed by Bank of America to buy back Tunisia’s external sovereign debt will change the situation of the negotiations that will be initiated by the Tunisian plenipotentiaries with the IMF and encourage that – here to accede to the request of Tunisia.
Much like Reuters, the Tunisian head of government was “confident” that Tunisia could secure financial support to help it overcome an economic crisis that has been made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“All efforts must be combined in Tunisia because we consider that we are in the presence of the last chance which we must seize to save the economy”, he declared in the interview with Reuters.
The Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank will also be visiting Washington at the weekend. At the beginning of next May, they will be joined by Hichem Mechichi, who himself confirmed it to Africanmanager.com, in the United States to participate in negotiations on the renewal of IMF land support to Tunisia.
