French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called on Wednesday July 28 for the "rapid appointment" of a Prime Minister in Tunisia, three days after the coup by President Kaïs Saïed, who awarded himself the executive power.
The head of French diplomacy underlined, during a telephone interview with his counterpart Othman Jerandi, "the importance of the rapid appointment of a Prime Minister and the formation of a government which is able to meet the expectations. Tunisians, "said the spokesperson for the Quai d'Orsay.
#Tunisia 🇹🇳 @JY_LeDrian spoke with his counterpart Othman Jerandi:
✔️ For the rapid appointment of a Prime Minister and the formation of a government
✔️ Support from France to Tunisians, particularly in terms of health
👉 Declaration https: //t.co/8p3Wmz9gqA pic.twitter.com/3YQbR7zYXX
- France Diplomacy🇫🇷 (@francediplo) July 28, 2021
Jean-Yves Le Drian also "insisted on the need to preserve calm and the rule of law, and to allow a rapid return to the normal functioning of the Tunisian democratic institutions", she added.
France had already asked, Monday, "the return, as soon as possible, to normal functioning of institutions, which must be able to focus on responding to the health, economic and social crisis".
President Kaïs Saïed argued the "imminent perils" facing Tunisia, plunged for months into a deep political crisis, to justify its seizure of power.
On Sunday evening, he ordered the suspension of the work of Parliament for a month, sacked the head of government Hichem Mechichi and granted himself executive power, in a context of economic and social crisis accentuated by a deadly peak of the epidemic of Covid.
With AFP
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