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24. Tunisia's biggest union urges Islamist-led government to quit

Reply to Hotler (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 10:05 AM

Jul 2013

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/07/30/uk-tunisia-protests-idUKBRE96T0N320130730

(Reuters) - Tunisia's largest labour union called on Tuesday for the dissolution of the Islamist-led government, and the interior minister, a leading independent, said he was ready to resign.

The moderate Islamist Ennahda party has faced mounting protests since the death in February of a leading secular politician, whose killing sparked the worst crisis since Tunisia's autocratic leader fell two years ago.

On Monday, one of Ennahda's junior coalition partners, the secular Ettakatol party, threatened to withdraw unless a new unity government were formed, something it said was necessary to end the widespread and increasingly violent protests.

Ennahda, which won Tunisia's first democratic elections after President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted, has resisted demands to relinquish power.

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