Monday, January 31, 2011

New government begins work on Tunisia

.- Very questioned for a week by hundreds of protesters calling for his departure to dispersion force on Friday, the Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannuchi set the objectives of his new team: democratic transition and economic recovery. "The two key challenges that Tunisia are facing the transition to democracy and renewed economic activity, "said Friday night in a televised interview Ghannuchi Mohammed, after surviving a week of demonstrations against his team.

From Davos (Switzerland), Tunisian officials on Saturday reiterated the message: investors and tourists are invited to return to Tunisia, as the economic situation is "under control". In a press conference, Mustapha Kamel Nabli, central bank governor, Yassine Brahim, Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation, and Sami Zaoui, Minister of Information Technology, said their presence at the World Economic Forum seeks to "convey the message" .

On the sensitive situation in the country, Mohammed Ghannuchi told private television Nesma that agreements on the interim government announced Thursday were involved "all parties, whether political parties, civil society, political sensitivities or university." Tunisia has "a rich experience of transition to democracy (but) has a duty to confront this political challenge", with the line of sight elections.

The country has however "all necessary means to succeed in this transition to democracy, which will allow all Tunisians of all political stripes expressed freely and choose their leader after this transitional phase," added that was Prime Minister for eleven years until his fall on January 14, President Ben Ali.

After violent clashes Friday in which hundreds of protestors Ghannuchi daily output and the chiefs of Ben Ali's regime were dispersed without contemplation, the quiet returned Saturday to Tunisia. Police only released some tear gas to disperse youths who attacked some warehouses at the end of the day.

Since Friday the esplanade of the Kasbah is completely surrounded by the military. However, the Tunisian government transition did not give "any order to evacuate" the Friday of the Kasbah, where hundreds of protesters were dispersed by force, a minister said Saturday that emerged from the opposition.

The center of the city, especially the Avenue Habib Bourguiba, regained its normal appearance, although some groups of demonstrators shouted scattered here and there. Hundreds of women marched and to express their willingness to defend the emancipation won for half a century, before returning to Tunisia on Sunday in exile head of the Islamist movement Ennahda, Rachid Ghannuchi.

Dozens of officials from the Ministry of Religious Affairs minister shouted slogans against their (independent) Larussi Mizouri.

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