The re-elected President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will be sworn in on Saturday in Ankara for a new five-year mandate and will announce the composition of his government at the same time, writes AFP.

In addition to approximately twenty heads of state, according to the pro-government press, a special emphasis on the celebrations will be the presence of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, confirmed by the Alliance.

Turkey, which has maintained its veto on Sweden’s entry into the Atlantic alliance for thirteen months, is expected to agree to lift it before or at the NATO summit in Vilnius in July.

“A clear message to our Swedish friends! Respect your commitments (…) and take concrete measures to fight terrorism. The rest will follow,” current Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu wrote on Twitter on Thursday evening.

Despite constitutional changes and a new anti-terrorism law, Ankara continues to criticize Sweden for harboring Kurdish refugees it calls “terrorists.”

Another relevant topic is the list of ministers, which will be announced in the evening, after the celebrations, and which should give an idea of ​​the direction the head of state will take to restore the crisis economy.

For this difficult task, the name of recognized expert Mehmet Simsek has been persistently circulating for several days.

A former finance minister (2009-2015) and then deputy prime minister in charge of the economy (until 2018), Simsek, 56, a former Merrill Lynch economist, will be tasked with restoring some orthodoxy to regain investor confidence.

In addition to inflation of more than 40%, fueled by persistently falling interest rates, the national currency was free-falling to more than 20.88 Turkish lira to the dollar on Friday (22.5 to the euro), despite billions of dollars invested during the campaign. to delay its flooding.