Mauritania Gets New Cabinet

Mauritanian Prime Minister Ahmed Ould El Yahaya Waghv Tuesday evening set up a new government a dozen days after the previous cabinet resigned. As announced, the new government is solely composed of presidential majority parties seated at Parliament, unlike the previous one which included ministers from two opposition groups.

The previous cabinet served a little more than a month and resigned following a motion of no confidence filed by some forty majority MPs.

The rebellious MPs blamed the outgoing government for its openness to the opposition in addition to harboring stalwarts of ousted President Maaouya Ould Taya’s regime, which ruled the country from 1984 to 2005.

Some former ministers under Ould Taya and members of the outgoing government were excluded from the new team.

These are Home Affairs minister Mohamed Yehdhih Ould El Moctar El Hassen, Oil minister Kane Mustapha, Foreign Affairs minister Cheikh El Avia Ould Mohamed Khouna, and Relations with Parliament and Civil Society Minister Sidney Sokhona.

In addition, a majority party, namely the Republican Party for Democracy and Renewal (PRDR), which has 5 MPs out of the Parliament’s 95, refused to join the cabinet in protest against what it decried as a “low quota”, with only one ministerial portfolio.

Questioned by APA, a PRDR juggernaut remained tight-lipped on the issue.

Source African Press Agency

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