tunisian pm decides a cabinet reshuffle including ministers
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Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed
Tunis - Hayat Al-Ghanemi

Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on Wednesday named a new cabinet, including the newly created post of economic reforms minister, after reaching a deal with political parties following weeks of infighting over posts, the government said.
A compromise over the cabinet should give Chahed, in power for just over a year, initiative to push ahead with tough public wage bill reforms and a pension system overhaul meant to improve Tunisia's public spending and deficits in line with IMF demands.
"I've decided on a government reshuffle," Mr Chahed told reporters, announcing the new line-up after talks with president Beji Caid Essebsi. The prime minister has been in power for just over a year. A former defence minister, Abdelkrim Zbidi, returns to the post in place of academic Farhat Horchani, while Lotfi Brahem, an ex-head of the national guard, replaces Hedi Majdoub in the interior minister role.
Cabinet head Ridha Chalghoum, a former finance minister close to the ruling Nidaa Tounes party, returns to the key position. Mr Chahed named one of his economic advisers, Taoufik Rajhi, who is a member of the Islamist Ennahda party, to the new post of economic reforms minister.
Speculation had been rife for several weeks over new faces in Mr Chahed's government following his consultations with political parties and organisations such as the powerful labour union UGTT.
Six years since its 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has been held up as a model after avoiding the violence that troubled other nations after their "Arab Spring" revolts. But successive governments have struggled to enact economic reforms amid political infighting. 
Six years since its 2011 uprising against autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has been held up as a model after avoiding the violence that troubled other nations after their "Arab Spring" revolts. But successive governments have struggled to enact economic reforms amid political infighting.

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