Tunisia: according to the spokesman of the executive, a reshuffle is imminent

A cabinet reshuffle is imminent in Tunisia, "maybe by tomorrow," announced Monday, January 24 at the channel and Al-Arabiya spokesman of the transitional government, Taieb Baccouch, also Minister of the education. This redesign, however, may only cover the replacement of ministers who have resigned already, not the start of the transitional government of former executives of the team of Ben Ali.

"We must not forget that there are unfilled," said Minister of Education to, recalling that five ministers resigned last week, three trade unionists, a critic and a member of the president's party fallen, the Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD). "Maybe there will be further resignations.

So there are vacancies, and this will necessarily involve a cabinet reshuffle by maybe tomorrow," said Baccouch an independent person after the unions. "Contacts are ongoing," he said. Fearful of being confiscated their revolution, thousands of demonstrators demanding every day for a week the formation of a new government free of caciques of the deposed regime of President Ben Ali, seven in total, who hold key positions of interior, defense, foreign affairs or finance.

Monday night, hundreds of protesters defied the curfew for the second consecutive night, before the palace where sits the Prime Minister. "The ministers of the former ruling party are not the majority, they are a minority in the government," continued Baccouch Taieb. The other members of the Provisional Executive agreed to sit with them "thinking that continuity of the state is necessary," he added, cautioning against "empty" and "chaos".

This restructuring, if does not start the RCD ministers, however, will be insufficient to stop the popular protest. Shortly before the intervention of Mr. Baccouch, evoked backroom negotiations to replace the transitional government by a committee of wise men ". Relying on political sources in Tunis, the British news agency stated that this committee could include the opponent Mestiri Ahmed, 85, founder of the Movement of Socialist Democrats.

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