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Tunisian Ennahda party founder and leader Rachid Ghannouchi speaks during a press conference in Tunis on October 30, 2014. (AFP/Fethi Belaid)

Tunisia: Ghannouchi calls for national unity government

by Kamal Ben Younes | Oct 31, 2014 | Middle East

Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—Tunisia’s Ennahda party leader Rachid Ghannouchi called for the formation of a national unity government in the North African republic, warning that no political party in the country should seek to monopolize power at the present time. His...

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Tunisian youth look at election posters put up on a street in Tunis on October 4, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID)

Campaigning begins for Tunisia’s parliamentary elections

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 5, 2014 | Middle East

Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—Campaigning began on Saturday for Tunisia’s second set of parliamentary elections following the ouster of longtime dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. The election, scheduled for October 26, will see an electorate of 5.3 million—including...

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Tunisian interim President Moncef Marzouki, center, speaks to the press at the Aouina military airport in Tunis on June 30, 2014. (Reuters/Anis Mili)

Tunisian presidential candidates begin seeking endorsement

by Monji Saidani | Jun 30, 2014 | Middle East

Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—Potential presidential candidates in Tunisia have begun seeking political endorsement to be legally entitled to run in the race following the announcement of the date of the polls on June 23. There are currently 13 potential candidates for the...

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Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly President, Mustafa Ben Jaafar, arrives at the Constituent Assembly for a plenary session due to set an election calendar on June 25, 2014, in the capital, Tunis. (AFP PHOTO/FETHI BELAID)

Mustafa Ben Jaafar: Being a consensus presidential candidate “would be an honor”

by Michel Abu Najm | Jun 27, 2014 | Interviews

Paris, Asharq Al-Awsat—As a leading member of Tunisia’s former Troika government, Democratic Forum of Labor and Liberties (Ettakatol) party leader Mustafa Ben Jaafar finds himself in a difficult position as his country prepares for presidential and parliamentary...

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Tunisian politician Beji Caid El-Sebsi (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Beiji Caid El-Sebsi: I am a student of Bourguiba

by Hatim Betioui | Jun 9, 2014 | Interviews

Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—Beginning his political career as a lawyer and pro-independence activist, Beiji Caid El-Sebsi became an advisor to Tunisia’s first president, Habib Bourguiba, after the country won its independence from France in 1956. He would go on to hold a...