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| Tunisia Opposition in Anti-Govt Demo as Talks Fail |
| 2013-09-01 |
| [An Nahar] Tunisia's Islamist-led coalition has failed to agree with the opposition on how to end weeks of political deadlock, mediators said on Saturday, ahead of planned anti-government protests. Tunisia was plunged into crisis by the July 25 liquidation of opposition MP Mohamed Brahmi, the second of its kind in six months, with both attacks blamed on krazed killer Salafists ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... The powerful UGTT trade union, which has been playing the role of mediator, on Saturday presented the government's latest proposals on resolving the crisis to opposition group, the National Salvation Front (NSF). But after the meeting, Hamma Hammami, a representative of the opposition, said the group had replied to the ruling coalition's proposals and that "the key to ending the crisis is in the (government's) hands." Hammami refused to elaborate on the proposals, except to confirm reports that they envisaged a change of government by September 29 at the latest, after a month of national dialogue on the new cabinet and the future constitution. But the NSF, a wide umbrella group of opposition parties, has repeatedly demanded the immediate resignation of the governing coalition, led by the moderate Islamist movement Ennahda. It has refused to engage in any national dialogue until a non-partisan cabinet has been formed. |
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