15 December 2011<\/p>\n
Tunisia’s new President Moncef Marzouki has called on his compatriots for a six-month political and social truce to sort out the country’s deep-rooted economic problems.<\/p>\n
“I call on all Tunisians to give us a political and social truce, just for six months,” Markouzi said on television late Wednesday, asking for “an end to the sit-ins and the strikes” in the north African country.<\/p>\n
This truce should enable the authorities to have “periodic meetings with the opposition and the trade unions, in order to find adequate solutions for a return to stability in six months and an upturn in economic activity,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“If we continue like this, we will be committing collective suicide,” warned Marzouki, who is backed by the Congress for the Republic (CPR) party and was sworn in last Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The interim president, who on Wednesday named Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali of the moderate Ennahda party and asked him to form a coalition government, vowed to resign “if things don’t get better in six months”.<\/p>\n
Mass protests erupted in Tunisia nearly a year ago against unemployment and corruption, ousting longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and sparking revolts across the Arab world that also toppled longtime dictators in Libya and Egypt.<\/p>\n
The protests included strikes and sit-ins as well as demonstrations and marches.<\/p>\n
Tunisia, now deeply gripped by an economic and social crisis, has not had an executive government since the October 23 elections, and observers say the formation of a new executive is urgent.<\/p>\n
According to the Central Bank, the economic growth rate will be zero at the end of 2011 and unemployment will rise to more than 18 percent.<\/p>\n
The cabinet list will be the topic of heated negotiation between Ennahda, the CPR and Ettakatol, whose leader Mustapha Ben Jaafar heads the constituent assembly.<\/p>\n
In negotiations for a new government, the CPR on Thursday presented a list of seven portfolios it was after, including the ministries of africulture, women, education, youth and sports, and junior ministers’ posts in industry and foreign affairs and administrative reform.<\/p>\n
As the leading party in constituent assembly elections on October 23, Ennahda has already laid claim to the ministries of the interior, justice and foreign affairs, according to several party members. – ANP\/AFP<\/em><\/p>\nAllAfrica – All the Time<\/p>\n
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