Tunisian President Kais Saied said - on Thursday - that the composition of the new government will be announced in the next few days.
Said added - during his meeting with the Minister of Social Affairs, Mohamed Trabelsi, who is in charge of running the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Investment Support, Siham Al-Boughdiri Namsieh - that the state continues and its public facilities continue, "and there are patriots who work hard within the administration within the Tunisian state."
The Tunisian president called on those who are required to present a road map for managing the phase, after announcing the exceptional measures - since last July 25 - to go to the geography books.
The meeting of the President of the Republic, Kais Saied with the Minister of Social Affairs, in charge of running the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Investment Support.
Posted by Presidence Tunisie on Thursday, August 19, 2021
Said said that the road map is one of the concepts that come to us from abroad, "and the only road map that I follow, and I will follow with firmness and determination, is the map drawn up by the Tunisian people," without clarifying what it is.
He added, "They (he did not name them) want to disappear the state and keep a government and a handful of people looting the Tunisian people (..) there is no room for these in the future."
Saeed is alluding in particular to the system of government that he intends to amend, while repeatedly saying that he will not go back, and his refusal to sit for a dialogue with his political opponents in Parliament.
On August 3, the Tunisian General Labor Union announced that it had drawn up a "road map" to get out of the current situation in the country, which it would present to the members of its administrative body without approval until a government is formed.
Tunisian parties - including the Ennahda Movement (53 deputies out of 217) - are calling on President Said to expedite the appointment of a competent prime minister.
Since last July 25, Tunisia has been witnessing a sharp political division, following Said's decision to dismiss Prime Minister Hisham Al-Mashishi, freezing the powers of Parliament for a period of 30 days, and lifting the immunity of deputies, and later issued orders to dismiss officials and appoint others.
He also pushed appointments in several positions, including appointments announced by his former security advisor in the presidency and the minister in charge of managing the Ministry of the Interior, which included several directors of sensitive security services.
The majority of Tunisian parties rejected Said's exceptional decisions, and some considered them a "coup against the constitution", while others supported them and saw them as a "correction of the course", in light of political, economic and health crises.