Elyes Fakhfakh Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/elyes-fakhfakh/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Elyes Fakhfakh Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/elyes-fakhfakh/ 32 32 Tunisia avoids an early election https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/tunisia-avoids-an-early-election/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/tunisia-avoids-an-early-election/ Tunisia’s Prime Minister has named a government expected to pass muster in a parliamentary confidence vote  and avoid having to return to the polls only four months after previous elections. The key has been getting the approval of the majority party in parliament Ennahda. It’s been a four month battle for Tunisia’s President Kaïs Saied […]

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]]> Tunisia’s Prime Minister has named a government expected to pass muster in a parliamentary confidence vote  and avoid having to return to the polls only four months after previous elections.

The key has been getting the approval of the majority party in parliament Ennahda.

It’s been a four month battle for Tunisia’s President Kaïs Saied and his Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh.

After the moderate Islamist Ennahda Party failed to form a government that met parliamentary approval, the Prime Minister had another go.

Saied warned this week that if it did not pass a no-confidence vote he would be forced to go back to the people.

The government includes Nizar Yaich as Finance Minister, Nourredine Erran in charge of foreign affairs and Imed Hazgui holding the defence portfolio. 

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]]> Tunisian face possible election four months after previous poll https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/tunisian-face-possible-election-four-months-after-previous-poll/ Tue, 18 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/02/tunisian-face-possible-election-four-months-after-previous-poll/ Tunisians face the prospect of returning to the polls only four months after Parliamentary and Presidential elections. President Kaïs Saied says he’ll dissolve Parliament today if it rejects the government proposed by his Prime Minister. The majority Ennhada Party is the stumbling block. The Prime Minister from this moderate Islamist party named by President  Kaïs […]

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]]> Tunisians face the prospect of returning to the polls only four months after Parliamentary and Presidential elections.

President Kaïs Saied says he’ll dissolve Parliament today if it rejects the government proposed by his Prime Minister.

The majority Ennhada Party is the stumbling block.

The Prime Minister from this moderate Islamist party named by President  Kaïs Saied stepped down when  he could not find parliamentary approval for a government. 

Saied then named another premier Elyes Fakhfakh who is having similar difficulty because Ennhada is withholding support.

It’s being called the biggest constitutional crisis since Tunisia became independent from France 64 years  ago.

The political impasse aside, Tunisia faces a major economic hurdle when  the four-year International Monetary Fund aid package comes to and end in April.

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