Tunis, 09 October, 2021 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
The Archbishop of Tunisia’s Tunis Archdiocese has expressed the hope that the appointment of Professor Najla Bouden Romdhane as Prime Minister in the Northernmost African country will set a stage for the recognizing the value of women in Arab countries.
Tunisia’s President, Kaïs Saïed, appointed Prof. Romdhane as the head of the new government, becoming the first women in Tunisia to hold such a high position.
In a news report of October 1, Archbishop Ilario Antoniazzi says, “Now it remains to be seen whether the appointment of a woman as head of government in an Arab country is a positive and innovative experience that recognizes and affirms the role of women not only for Tunisian society but also for the Arab countries and the international community as a whole.”
“We have to take into account the fact that here in Tunisia women have a meaning in social life that does not exist in other Arab countries,” Archbishop Antoniazzi in the report by Agenzia Fides, the information service of the Vatican's Propaganda Fide.
The Italian-born Archbishop made reference to the Jasmine Revolution, the successful uprising in Tunisia in which protests against corruption, political repression, and poverty that saw the Tunisian President, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali step aside in January 2011, saying women played a vital role in the unfolding and realization of the uprising.
