Tunisia: Foreign Minister fired

Tunisian President Kais Saied fired Tuesday his Foreign Minister Othmane Jerandi and replaced him by the country’s current ambassador to Belgium, his office has announced.

The office in a statement said Nabil Ammar has been appointed to take over the department from Jerandi.

The statement did not provide details on the rationale behind the move, but it comes few days after a slight cabinet reshuffle in the wake of unpopular second round of legislatives.

End of last month, President Saied removed minister of Education Fathi Selaouti and minister of agriculture Mohamed Ilyes. Both were respectively replaced by Ali Boughdiri and Abdelmonam Belati.

The various changes occurred a day after the country held the second round of the legislative elections. The process was boycotted by voters with turnout put at 11.4 per cent by the independent electoral body, ISIE.

The first round held in December also recorded the lowest ever turnout registered in the history of the country, 11 per cent.
Nabil Ammar was expected to be appointed the country’s future ambassador to France, according to Webdo Tunis.