Tunisia president asks PM to improve economy or quit

Bloomberg

Tunisia’s PM should either urgently address the country’s political and economic crisis or step aside, the president said.
The intervention by Beji Caid Essebsi during a television interview comes as international investors signal deepening concerns about the economy, and ordinary Tunisians turn on politicians they see as more interested in jockeying ahead of presidential elections next year.
Prime Minister Youssef Chahed must “move to change the situation and improve it,” Essebsi said on Nessma TV.
“The disagreement between the political forces cannot continue,” the president said in a reference to the dispute between a faction of the Nidaa Tounes party that wants Chahed to step down, and the moderate Ennahda party, which opposes the move as destabilising.
The political and economic situation in Tunisia is “bad and has reached a severe crisis that cannot be continued,” Essebsi said. Chahed was appointed in 2016.