Tunisian Interior Minister Hichem Mechichi was appointed head of the future government on Saturday July 25 by President Kais Saied.
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A lawyer by training, Hichem Mechichi, 46, was not proposed by the political parties in power.
The new prime minister must train his team within a month in a tense political context.
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