Tunisia names first woman PM

Tunis: Tunisia’s President on Wednesday named the country’s first female Prime Minister, appointing her to lead a transitional Government after her predecessor was sacked and Parliament suspended.

President Kais Saied named Raoudha Boudent Ramadhane, a 63-year-old professor at a prestigious engineering school, to the PM’s post in



a surprise decision.

The President’s office said in a statement that Saied instructed the new prime minister to name a new Cabinet as soon as possible.

Tunisia has had no prime minister and has been in limbo since Saied froze the parliament and seized executive powers on July 25.