Ghannouchi calls for a cabinet reshuffle in the Tunisian government

Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament, Rached Ghannouchi, called for a cabinet reshuffle.

To improve the performance of the government of Hisham El Mechichi.

In a statement to reporters yesterday, Saturday, on the sidelines of a parliamentary seminar, Ghannouchi said that it is necessary to conduct a cabinet reshuffle "on the basis of performance evaluation to raise government efficiency and improve performance," noting that "the performance of some ministers is modest."

This comes amid expectations that Prime Minister Hisham Al-Meshishi will conduct a cabinet reshuffle, after he sacked 3 ministers, the last of whom was Interior Minister Tawfiq Sharaf al-Din, last Tuesday.

The overthrow of the Minister of Interior came days after the remarkable statements of the President of the Republic, Qais Saeed, during a visit he made to the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior, accompanied by the Minister in the absence of the Prime Minister, in which he stressed that he is "the supreme commander of the military and security forces."

Political leaders did not deny that there were talks between the Prime Minister and the party coalition supporting him (Ennahda, the Heart of Tunisia, and Al-Karama) regarding an imminent cabinet reshuffle.

And President Saeed has previously repeated in more than one speech his warnings about the existence of a plan to conduct a ministerial change in the government in the service of certain parties, the last of which was in his speech on the occasion of New Year's Day, confirming that there are arrangements to change the government or present a blame list against it.

Political parties went on to say that the battle over the powers between the Meshchite and Saeed at the head of the executive authority has entered a dangerous phase that will contribute to confusing the state's work, after it reached a sovereign ministry such as the Interior.

The President of the Republic had chosen al-Mashishi to form the government last July, as he was considered the "most capable person," to raise the veto in his face after a short period of time following the escalation of differences between the two men regarding the government structure.