Tunisian leader names new PM with little experience at crisis moment
TAREK AMARA and ANGUS McDOWALL PRESIDENT Kais Saied has named a geologist with little government experience as Tunisia's first woman prime minister amid a crisis following his seizure of sweeping powers and with public finances close to breaking point. He asked Najla Bouden Romdhane, a little-known professor of geophysics who implemented World Bank projects at the education ministry, to form a government as quickly as possible, prompting a surge in Tunisian bond prices. Elected in 2019, Saied has been under mounting domestic and international pressure to name a government after he dismissed the prime minister, suspended parliament and assumed executive…