Sunday, February 27, 2011

Ganuchi resigns, the prime minister Tnez

Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghanuchi, announced his resignation on state television in the country. Ghanuchi's resignation comes after new protests in the North African country. More than 50,000 demonstrators gathered last night in the Place de la Kasbah in the Tunisian capital to express their opposition to the continuation of the interim government, which they accuse of having failed in his attempt to try to satisfy the minimum demands of the revolution and to be an extension of the regime of former President Zine al Abidine Ben Ali.

As EFE has noted, police have used tear gas to quell protesters. Man of the regime's prime minister has had close ties to the president fled and their actions in the previous regime. While the Tunisians called him "Monsieur Oui Oui" (Yes Yes Lord) because he always said yes to Ben Ali, according to Foreign Policy.

Is considered, however, as a highly competent technocrat. Following the hasty departure of the Tunisian leader, became president Ghanuchi office on January 14, leaving the door open for the return of Ben Ali. A day later, the Tunisian Constitutional Council issued a statement in which it is tinged Parliament Speaker Mebaza Feud, not the prime minister, who should occupy the post of acting president if the elected out of office, as has happened.

Ghanuchi (August 18, 1941) studied economics and spent time training in the French Finance Ministry. Is part of the Tunisian government since Ben Ali was appointed prime minister by former president Habib Bourguiba. When this was replaced by Ben Ali, Ghanuchi took over the Ministry of Economy.

Since 1999, holds the post of prime minister, which has been loyal to the outgoing president to the end. The interim president of Tunisia, Fouad Mebazaa, announced Sunday the appointment of Caid Béji Sebsi as the new country's interim prime minister following the resignation of Ghannouchi, as announced by the Tunisian news agency TAP.

Sebsi is a Tunisian political veteran and served as foreign minister between 1981 and 1982, during the presidency of Habib Bourguiba, the first president of independent Tunisia. Tunisia highest level, the country that opened a breach in the wave of riots in the Maghreb, has seen how today resumed clashes between police and civilians.

The anger of the Tunisian people has re-ignited in the streets and reaches highest level. One of the nephews of the Tunisian president has reported receiving death threats signed by the self Collective Maghreb justice, as reported by the newspaper Le Parisien. According to the French tabloid, Moncef Ben Mohamed Trabelsi received a letter in the Paris office of his attorney, in which senders to your clan accused of having "plundered Tunisia to infinity", and urge you to take the "courage to face Justice "in his country.

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