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February 6, 2015: “This is a decision in which I refrained from interfering, and I hope that Tunisia will have a fair perspective on the composition of this government.” President Béji Caïd Essebsi skillfully slipped this brief remark into his short address to members of the government during the swearing-in ceremony held Friday morning in Carthage. Two days after Habib Essid’s new government won a vote of confidence in the Assembly by a large majority of 166 out of 217 seats, the swearing-in ceremony and group photo of the new government took place at the Palace of Carthage with President of the Republic Béji Caïd Essebsi. The 44 ministers and secretaries of state chosen by Prime Minister Habib Essid appeared, one by one, before the President of the Republic to take the oath of office on the Quran.

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