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A police officer keeps watch near a cemetery where the bodies of soldiers and civilians who were killed during Monday’s attack on army and police posts by Islamist fighters will be buried in the town of Ben Guerdan, Tunisia, near the Libyan border March 9, 2016. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

Tunisia: Second Round of Talks Launches to Appoint New Prime Minister

by AlMunji alSaidani | Aug 1, 2016 | Middle East

Tunisia- 191 out of 217 members of the Tunisian parliament participated in the 12-hours session to decide on renewing confidence to government. 118 voted against, three voted in favor, while 27 abstained from voting. The tumbling of the government was a blast. By...

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Tunisian President. (Reuters)

Tunisian President: Parliament will decide the fate of the Prime Minister

by Al-munji al-Saaidani | Jul 14, 2016 | World

Tunis – Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said that the Prime Minister Habib Essid chose to face the parliament to decide whether he’ll remain a prime minister or not. Essebsi said he has the utmost respect for Essid indicating there is no problem between both...

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Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi. Reuters

Ennahda, Nidaa Tounes, Agree on Government of Parliamentary Majority

by Al-munji al-Saaidani | Jun 11, 2016 | Middle East

Tunis-The Nidaa Tounes and Ennahda movements have agreed on forming a parliamentary-majority government if the opposition insisted on refusing to participate in the cabinet proposed by the Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, sources said. The agreement rules that...

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Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi (R) shakes hands with newly nominated Prime Minister Habib Essid in Tunis. (Reuters)

Former interior minister nominated as new Tunisia premier

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 5, 2015 | Middle East

Tunis, Reuters—A former Tunisian interior minister has been nominated as prime minister to form a new government after an agreement among political parties in the newly elected parliament, congress speaker Mohamed Nacer said on Monday. The nominee, Habib Essid, worked...

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A Tunisian man prepares to cast his ballot at a polling station during the Tunisian presidential elections in Tunis, Tunisia, 23 November 2014. (EPA/MOHAMED MESSARA)

Tunisians vote for first freely elected president

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 23, 2014 | Middle East

Tunis, Reuters—Tunisians went to the polls on Sunday to vote for their first directly elected president, in the final step to be taken to full democracy after the 2011 revolution that ended the rule of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. More than three years since overturning...