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| Tunisia oppn rejects concession |
| 2013-08-24 |
| [OMANOBSERVER] Tunisia's opposition coalition yesterday rejected proposals by the ruling party for ending a month-long political crisis, saying their offer to enter talks on a government of technocrats was insufficient. "All negotiations without the (immediate) dissolution of the government are a waste of time," said Taieb Baccouche, a representative of the National Salvation Front. He was speaking after meeting members of the UGTT trade union confederation, which has been mediating between the two sides and which forwarded the ruling Ennahda party's proposals. Jilani Hammami, another NSF representative, described Ennahda's proposals, the details of which were not communicated to the press, as ambiguous. Ennahda indicated on Thursday, for the first time since the start of the crisis triggered by the liquidation of opposition MP Mohamed Brahmi, that it might agree to the resignation of the coalition government which it heads. But the party stressed that a "national dialogue" bringing together supporters and opponents of the ruling coalition needed to take place first. "We are going to keep up the pressure for the goverment's dissolution, we have a plan to step up the mobilisation on the ground," Hammami said. |
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