ARP: Nidaa Tounes Reduces Parliamentary Seat Gap With Ennahda
ARP Speaker Mohamed Ennaceur formally recognized the return of parliamentarian Mohamed Bouguerra Rachdi to the Nidaa Tounes bloc which now holds 62 seats in the 217 seat ARP.
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Coalition Parties Call For Resignation of Prime Minister Habib Essid
A meeting of representatives from the four parties of the ruling coalition concluded early Friday morning with a statement that the coalition was withdrawing its support for the government of Prime Minister Habib Essid [...]
Chawki Tabib: Ten Urgent Anti Corruption Measures Tunisian Government Must Take
Since taking office Tabib, the has called for the development of medium and long-term strategies to combat corruption and warned that Tunisia "risked becoming a mafia state if corruption was not tackled"
ARP Approves Law on Banks and Financial Institutions, Again; Opposition Walks Out, Again
Nearly a month after the law on banks and financial institution's approval by the Assembly of the Representatives of the People (ARP) was overturned on procedural grounds, the banking sector reform was resubmitted and [...]
Youssef Chahed, Minister of Local Affairs, Elaborates on Plan to Redraw Municipalities
The reforming of the municipal system is one of two prerequisite conditions, along with approval by the Assembly of the Representatives of the People of a draft law governing elections, for the holding of [...]
Resignations From Slim Riahi’s UPL Party Continue Unabated
The refurbishing of its internal party structures was an attempt by party President Slim Riahi to move beyond a series of resignations and disunion, which have seem the party quarrel with fellow governing coalition [...]
Approval of Law on Banks and Financial Institutions Ruled Unconstitutional on Procedural Grounds
According to the ARP deputies who filed the appeal, the draft law on banks and financial institutions had been rushed through the ARP's finance committee and its submission to a plenary session of the [...]
IMF Approves Four Year-2.9 Billion USD Loan Package to Tunisia
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Executive Board, on Friday, May 20, approved a 4 year USD 2.9 billion loan to Tunisia "to support the country’s economic and financial reform program." Following the Board’s decision [...]