Post by peterd on Mar 19, 2013 11:54:26 GMT -8
The New Tunisian Government – 'A Reproduction' Of The Previous Government That Circumvented The Revolution
Introduction
On February 19, 2013, Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali stepped down; his resignation followed the February 6 assassination of Tunisian secular leftist opposition leader Chokri Belaid, gunned down in front of his home in the capital Tunis. Three days later, on February 22, President Moncef Marzouki asked Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, who had been formally nominated two weeks previously by El-Nahda party leader Rached Ghannouchi, to form a government.
Prior to his appointment as prime minister, Larayedh had served as interior minister in Jebali's government; previously, he had spent 15 years in prison under the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
After winning parliament's approval for his new government, Larayedh formally took on March 14 – on the same day that the funeral was held of a young street vendor who had burned himself to death in Tunis to protest against unemployment, recalling the January 2011 self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi that sparked Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution.
www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/7088.htm
Introduction
On February 19, 2013, Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali stepped down; his resignation followed the February 6 assassination of Tunisian secular leftist opposition leader Chokri Belaid, gunned down in front of his home in the capital Tunis. Three days later, on February 22, President Moncef Marzouki asked Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, who had been formally nominated two weeks previously by El-Nahda party leader Rached Ghannouchi, to form a government.
Prior to his appointment as prime minister, Larayedh had served as interior minister in Jebali's government; previously, he had spent 15 years in prison under the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
After winning parliament's approval for his new government, Larayedh formally took on March 14 – on the same day that the funeral was held of a young street vendor who had burned himself to death in Tunis to protest against unemployment, recalling the January 2011 self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi that sparked Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution.
www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/7088.htm