{"id":2907,"date":"2023-03-18T10:13:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T10:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2023-03-18T10:13:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T10:13:51","slug":"tunisia-president-saied-appoints-new-interior-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/18\/tunisia-president-saied-appoints-new-interior-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: President Saied appoints new Interior minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Kais Saied<\/a> of Tunisia has appointed a new Interior Minister. The presidency issued two decrees in a statement on Friday night, the first terminating Charfeddine’s duties and a second appointing Kamel Feki as Interior Minister.<\/p>

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Mr. Feki is a law graduate and a former executive of the Ministry of Finance. He has held the post of prefect of Tunis since late 2021.<\/p>\n

His nomination comes a few hours after Taoufik Charfeddine, a close aide of President Kais Saied, announced he had resigned to spend more time with his children following the death of his wife last year.<\/p>\n

Charfeddine, 54, who had held his post since October 2021, said he wished to thank the president for “his understanding and for allowing me to be relieved of my duties”.<\/p>\n

The minister’s wife died in a fire caused by a gas leak in their home in June last year.<\/p>\n

A former lawyer, Charfeddine was a key figure in the election campaign that propelled the previously little known Saied to the presidency in 2019.<\/p>\n

After Saied froze parliament and sacked the then government in a dramatic July 2021 move against the sole democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings, Charfeddine became a close adviser.<\/p>\n

As the president pushed through sweeping changes to the country’s political system, concentrating near-total power in his office, Charfeddine was one of the most outspoken defenders of his power grab.<\/p>\n

Saied’s office regularly released video footage of the two men’s frequent meetings in the presidential palace.<\/p>\n

On March 8, more than 30 Tunisian non-governmental organisations demanded an apology from the minister after he branded as “traitors” the president’s many critics in the private sector, the media and trade unions.<\/p>\n

They accused him of using the “language of threat and intimidation” to “sow division” among Tunisians as part of a “dangerous populist discourse that foreshadows a police state” like the one overthrown in the country’s 2011 uprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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