Mauritanian Prime Minister Yahya Ould Hademine has submitted the resignation of his government on Monday (October 29th) to the head of state Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, as required by law after the election of a new national assembly.
President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has appointed the Director General of the National Society of Mining Industry (SNIM), Mohamed Salem Ould Bashir, 56, to form a new government.
This engineer in electro-mechanic, who heads the largest Mauritanian public company since August 2016, was also Minister of Hydraulics and Sanitation, between 2013 and 2015 and Minister of Oil, Energy and Mines.
The new prime minister will have a lot to do with a polarized opposition within the Islamist Tawasoul party.
Hardly known name than alleged leaks, relayed by sites close to the movement, evoked a situation of SNIM almost bankrupt.