The Tunisian Prime Minister-designate, Habib El-Gamli, presented today, Wednesday, the formation of his government, which he described as a government of competencies, to President Qais Saeed, to be voted on by Parliament later.
This development comes after a difficult labor that took six weeks, during which the main parties failed to form a ruling coalition.
The Tunisian presidency said that Saeed will send a message to Parliament Speaker Rashid Nouchi to set a date for granting confidence to the new government.
Al-Gamali, and an independent personality, said yesterday that he was unable to present his government to the President due to the latter's preoccupation with activities outside the presidential residence.
In a speech he addressed to the Tunisians on his official Facebook page, he added that his government will live up to the aspirations of the Tunisians and will be able to fulfill its responsibilities in the historic and decisive period that Tunisia is experiencing.
After the failure of the negotiations between the Renaissance parties (54 seats out of 217 seats in Parliament), the Democratic Current Party (22 seats), the People's Movement (15 seats) and the Long live Tunisia (14 seats), Al-Gamali announced that he would form a government that includes competent and independent independents, Although leaders of the Al-Nahda movement, which nominated him to lead the government, expressed its desire for the government’s composition to include politicians.
It is noteworthy that Tunisian President Qais Saeid commissioned mid-November last Habib El-Gamli to form a government, and after mid-December, El-Gamly asked Saeid to extend the deadline after the first month without the formation of the government.
The next government needs a majority of 109 deputies to be approved in parliament, and it is not yet clear which parties will give confidence to the new government and which parties will not vote for it.