The pressure of the street increases, the announcement of the reshuffle is delayed. Originally scheduled for the day Wednesday, January 26, it should finally intervene Thursday, according to a spokesman of the government. The news agency quoting political sources ahead even concercés departments: the interior, defense and foreign affairs.
Wednesday in Tunis, security has been stepped on at the Prime Minister where hundreds of protesters have camped there to demand the resignation of the transitional government. Security forces blocked with barbed wire the main entrances to the Casbah, the plaza of the capital where are the offices of prime minister and several ministries.
Riot police took up positions around. In the morning, the police fired tear gas against protesters who wanted to force a dam and they were throwing stones. In the afternoon, the authorities have announced an easing of the curfew. According to the official news agency TAP, "because of improved security situation," the curfew will run from 10:00 p.m.
to 4:00, replacing the previous driving ban which ran from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00. "Down with the government!" A few hundred demonstrators who slept there in defiance of the curfew chanting slogans under the windows of Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi. "We have one demand: that the government falls, they all leave, the first Ghannouchi," said one of them.
"We must clean up the remnants of the former government. This government is that of 7 November", when the coup of 1987 which brought him to power AbidineBen Zine El-Ali, a fugitive since January 14 in Saudi Arabia. The closure of the main entrances to the Casbah by the security forces, and who tried to prevent the supply of blankets and food demonstrators, including many provincial disinherited from inside the country, sparked irritation.
"You want to starve us, you want to besiege us," he told the police a man came in Sfax, 270 km south of Tunis. In Sfax, Tunisia's second city, the general strike began on Wednesday with "disengagement of thousands of workers in all sectors," according to the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT).
The strikers began to gather outside the regional headquarters of the Central Association for the dissolution of the transitional government, the appeal of the plant. "We will also ask for the dissolution step of the RCD and report the official information that addresses the UGTT," said a union member.
The association has played a central role in organizing the demonstrations of "jasmine revolution" that led to the downfall of the regime. She now weighs heavily in the protest movement that calls for the departure of the team of Ben Ali, who occupy key positions in the transitional government.
The nostalgic UGTT accuses the deposed president from attacking its premises. "Militiamen and criminal gangs linked to the old regime were attacked on Tuesday at the regional headquarters of Gafsa, Kasserine, Beja, Monastir and Mehdia" said Iffa Nasr, spokesperson of the Central Association.
He said the attackers were armed with clubs, stones, knives and chains. "They ransacked the premises and injured unionists in Gafsa," he said. "On Tuesday, gunmen tried to attack the regional headquarters of Gafsa UGTT, but the army intervened to protect the building, it has emerged, firing into the air," said Ben Ammar Amroussia.
"The gangs made up of businessmen associated with the former regime and executives Constitutional Democratic Rally have attacked the union within the union regional headquarters," said the unionist. The UGTT already called for a "general strike" on Thursday in Sidi Bouzid, home of the revolution that brought about the downfall of President Ben Ali, to demand the resignation of the transitional government. 
Wednesday in Tunis, security has been stepped on at the Prime Minister where hundreds of protesters have camped there to demand the resignation of the transitional government. Security forces blocked with barbed wire the main entrances to the Casbah, the plaza of the capital where are the offices of prime minister and several ministries.
Riot police took up positions around. In the morning, the police fired tear gas against protesters who wanted to force a dam and they were throwing stones. In the afternoon, the authorities have announced an easing of the curfew. According to the official news agency TAP, "because of improved security situation," the curfew will run from 10:00 p.m.
to 4:00, replacing the previous driving ban which ran from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00. "Down with the government!" A few hundred demonstrators who slept there in defiance of the curfew chanting slogans under the windows of Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi. "We have one demand: that the government falls, they all leave, the first Ghannouchi," said one of them.
"We must clean up the remnants of the former government. This government is that of 7 November", when the coup of 1987 which brought him to power AbidineBen Zine El-Ali, a fugitive since January 14 in Saudi Arabia. The closure of the main entrances to the Casbah by the security forces, and who tried to prevent the supply of blankets and food demonstrators, including many provincial disinherited from inside the country, sparked irritation.
"You want to starve us, you want to besiege us," he told the police a man came in Sfax, 270 km south of Tunis. In Sfax, Tunisia's second city, the general strike began on Wednesday with "disengagement of thousands of workers in all sectors," according to the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT).
The strikers began to gather outside the regional headquarters of the Central Association for the dissolution of the transitional government, the appeal of the plant. "We will also ask for the dissolution step of the RCD and report the official information that addresses the UGTT," said a union member.
The association has played a central role in organizing the demonstrations of "jasmine revolution" that led to the downfall of the regime. She now weighs heavily in the protest movement that calls for the departure of the team of Ben Ali, who occupy key positions in the transitional government.
The nostalgic UGTT accuses the deposed president from attacking its premises. "Militiamen and criminal gangs linked to the old regime were attacked on Tuesday at the regional headquarters of Gafsa, Kasserine, Beja, Monastir and Mehdia" said Iffa Nasr, spokesperson of the Central Association.
He said the attackers were armed with clubs, stones, knives and chains. "They ransacked the premises and injured unionists in Gafsa," he said. "On Tuesday, gunmen tried to attack the regional headquarters of Gafsa UGTT, but the army intervened to protect the building, it has emerged, firing into the air," said Ben Ammar Amroussia.
"The gangs made up of businessmen associated with the former regime and executives Constitutional Democratic Rally have attacked the union within the union regional headquarters," said the unionist. The UGTT already called for a "general strike" on Thursday in Sidi Bouzid, home of the revolution that brought about the downfall of President Ben Ali, to demand the resignation of the transitional government.
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