Friday, January 28, 2011

Ghanuchi is committed to free elections

.- The Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghanuchi, which will remain at the head of a government without the weight that kept the old guard of the deposed president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali today pledged to lead the North African country to free elections supervised by international observers. After several days of negotiations and uncertainty, Ghanuchi announced on state television today a new government without the presence of the most hated ministers of Ben Ali and integrated operators essentially detached from the old regime.

As advanced on Wednesday, leaving the Government's top ministers, including Interior, Cold Ahmed, the Foreign Morjani Kamel, the Defense Rida Grira or Finance Chalgum Rida. However, remain Ghanuchi and two ministers of less weight than the ruling party belonged the old regime, the Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) - the Industry, Hafif Chalbi and Planning and International Cooperation, Nuri Yuini.

Ghanuchi served as prime minister for the past 11 years with the former president, but was not mixed into the corruption that corroded the system and is generally considered a good manager, more technocrat than a politician. The Prime Minister said today during his televised speech that "consultations with all political parties and civil society components agreed to participate" in the negotiations resulted form this "provisional government." "Their mission is to organize elections for the people to choose in all freedom," and urged Tunisians to "return to work." Ghanuchi, whose tenure has been answered by the majority of Tunisians for days, said the new Cabinet "agrees that elections are organized under the control of an independent commission" and the presence of international observers ensure transparency.

Shortly before the announcement of the new government, Foreign Minister Kamel Morjani, submitted his resignation, thereby distancing themselves from the rest of the outgoing ministers, both in form and in the explanations he offered. "Considering the interest in Tunisia and to support the action of national unity government to lead the country into a stable future, I decided to give up my duties," said the official agency Morjani.

He noted that he resigned in order to support the Government's action "for the popular revolution experienced by our country supplies fruit and fill the aspirations of our people to freedom, pride and dignity." Morjani, 69 and educated at prestigious American universities, he entered the government of deposed President Ben Ali in 2005 as defense minister and then became Affairs.

In Tunisia, he was considered in recent years as the U.S. candidate to succeed Ben Ali and some sources have attributed a key role in the departure of former president, along with Chief of Army Staff, General Rashid Ammar . Before the announcement of the new government, thousands of people continued today protesting against the Executive, in the capital and in different regions of the country.

In the city of Sidi Buzid where social revolt began that forced the collapse of the former regime and now lived a general strike, took to the streets thousands of protesters also claimed against Ghanuchi. "No to the theft of our revolution," shouted the protesters or "We will be loyal to the end of the martyrs", referring to the dozens of deaths caused by the suppression of the revolt was especially fierce in areas like Sidi or Buzid KaserĂ­n neighbor.

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