TUNIS, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said Tuesday that the cabinet reshuffle remains imperative as three posts are vacant.
While announcing a national strategy to boost employment, Chahed said an official announcement will be released after a new list of cabinet members is completed.
Tunisian interim Minister of Finance Fadhel Abdelkafi, who was also acting minister of development, investment and international cooperation, resigned on Aug. 18 as he faced a court case next month over alleged illegal financial transactions. Moreover, the post of education minister has been vacant since April 30.
Political factions in the country are divided on the reshuffle, with some parties preferring to fill the vacancies while the others supporting a general reshuffle.
The North African country has been battling jihadists and struggling to revive the economy amid political uncertainties.
The Tunisian government announced in April a new investment law to boost the country's economy which has been gradually recovering from the unrest in 2011.
The IMF mission predicted that Tunisia could finish the current year with an economic growth of 2.5 percent, an increase from 1.3 percent in 2016.
