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Tunisia PM to resign if new cabinet rejected
Jebali threatens to resign if his technocratic cabinet offer is rejected as
thousands of pro-ruling party mass in Tunis.
Last Modified: 09 Feb 2013 18:10
Some of the protesters shouted anti-French slogans saying 'France get out!'
[Reuters]
Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali has threatened to resign unless his
Ennahda party and other parties accept his proposals for an interim government
of technocrats.
Jebali, who is in dispute with his party over his proposal for a new
government, said on Saturday he would present his new cabinet "by the middle of
next week by the latest," the official TAP news agency reported.
If the team was accepted by parties represented in the country's constituent
assembly without being put to a vote he would remain on as prime minister,
Jebali said. Otherwise, he said, he would resign.
Jebali first made the announcement on Wednesday, hours after the assassination
of opposition leader Chokri Belaid outside his home by an unknown assailant.
Ennahda, his own party, rejected that idea soon afterward. Jebali said on
Friday that he was confident he could gain Ennahda's support. It remains
unclear how he plans to pull enough support to his side.
"I am convinced this is the best solution for the current situation in
Tunisia," Jebali said late on Friday, offering to resign if the elected
assembly did not accept his proposed cabinet.
Pro-ruling party rallies
Thousands of supporters of Tunisia's ruling party Ennahda demonstrated in the
capital on Saturday, a day after the funeral of the assassinated opposition
leader Chokri Belaid.
The demonstrators chanted "The people still want Ennahda" and "The revolution
continues" as they marched along the central Avenue Bourguiba on Saturday.
Some of the protesters shouted anti-French slogans. The government has accused
France of meddling over critical comments by French Interior Minister Manuel
Valls, who denounced the killing as an attack on "the values of Tunisia's
Jasmine revolution".
"France get out!" and "The people want to protect the legitimacy" of the
government were among slogans chanted by Ennahda party supporters who numbered
more than 3,000, AFP journalists estimated.
"Enough, France! Tunisia will never again be a French colony," proclaimed some
of banners waved by protesters.
The pro-Ennahda demonstration took place on Habib Bourguiba Avenue, epicentre
of the 2011 revolution that toppled ex-dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, close
to the French embassy.
The ruling Ennahda party called supporters to gather in central Tunis to show
support for the constitutional assembly, whose work on a new constitution
suffered a severe setback when leftist parties withdrew their participation
following the killing of Belaid earlier this week.
Source:
Associated Press
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