Tunisian Prime Minister promises to leave politics after elections

.- The Tunisian Prime Minister promised to give up politics after the election, an ad that seeks to appease the protesters demanding that the remnants of the old guard to leave the coalition government formed after the overthrow of the president. Mohamed Ghannouchi, who until last week was prime minister in the ousted government of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, held on Saturday morning at the ministerial level meetings in his office.

Police cordoned off the area with barbed wire, trying to avoid a repeat of the protests that seemed to have shaken the interim government the previous day. In an emotional speech on television night after a day of protests outside his office, Ghannouchi tried to distance himself from Ben Ali and vowed to capture.

His former ally fled to Saudi Arabia on 14 January. "I've lived as the Tunisians and I had fears as the Tunisian" he said, trying to identify with the millions who suffered from the economic crisis and political repression for 24 years under President Ben Ali and his greedy family. "I promise to stop all my political activity after my period in charge of the transitional government," Ghannouchi said the Tunisian.

Previously, said he planned to hold free elections soon, but the protesters have been waiting for assurances that their revolt, which moved impoverished communities in Arab countries, did not end with a simple replacement of the old guard in power. The efforts of members of former ruling party, the RCD, and described as victims of the former government and understanding of popular anger towards Ben Ali spread to other sectors.

On Friday, the police, whose ranks once formed much of the Tunisian elite, embraced the protesters and said they were also victims. The streets of the capital Tunis were calm on Saturday morning, in the second of three days of national mourning declared to commemorate the dozens of protesters killed in weeks of protests that were called "jasmine revolution." Ghannouchi promised compensation to relatives of victims of human rights abuses.

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