Sunday, February 27, 2011

Tunisia hold elections before the end of July

Tunisia. Transition .- The Tunisian Government today announced the call for elections in the country "than the middle of next July", according to a statement released by the official news agency TAP, which does not specify whether legislative or presidential elections are. "The Government has examined the political terms and has decided that consultations with various political groups should not exceed half of March," the statement said, adding that "the elections will be organized as a peak in mid July 2011." The Transitional Executive Tunisian Ghanuchi led by Mohamed, has been strongly contested in the country and tens of thousands of protesters demanded today in the center of Tunisia for his resignation in full.

Since the flight of the deposed president, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, on 14 January, the government has promised free elections call for both presidential and legislative within six months. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated today in several parts of central Tunisia, including the Avenue Habib Bourguiba and at the Government Palace in the old medina in the capital against the transitional Cabinet, according to Efe found.

The great protest against the prime minister's office, which never ceased to grow since this morning, joined the thousands of protesters to the Ministry of Interior in the central avenue Bourguiba asking Ghanuchi output and a new constitution for the country. All roads accessing the old medina of Tunis, where the Government Palace, were packed with protesters, mostly students, who shouted "Ganuchi out, out." Hundreds of protesters also climbed to the roofs and balconies of buildings adjacent to the square waved Tunisian flags and also various Libyan tricolor banners, the former flag of that country prior to Muammar Gaddafi and that flies in the eastern Libya, which is controlled by the rebels.

All primary and secondary schools and higher institutes and schools closed their doors today to the call for expressions of student leaders.

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