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Beji Caid Essebsi, the Tunisian prime minister, has said that a\u00a0new outbreak of deadly violence in Tunisia is designed to prevent the country holding its first post-revolution elections.<\/p>\n

“There were disturbances aimed at preventing elections,” said Essebsi during an address to the nation on Monday. “These elections<\/a> will be held on October 23 as scheduled.”<\/p>\n

Voters will choose a\u00a0constituent assembly that\u00a0will write a new constitution that will pave the way for legislative and presidential polls.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said that “some parties and marginal groups are not ready for the elections,” pointing to the “strange” timing of the violent incidents that had occurred across the country over the past few days.<\/p>\n

Protesters\u00a0say\u00a0the new government is not doing\u00a0enough\u00a0to\u00a0create\u00a0jobs\u00a0for the country’s 700,000 unemployed and failing to\u00a0rescue\u00a0a shrinking economy.<\/p>\n

“We’re in a transitional period, the state is weak and other forces are taking advantage,” said Dora Jaafar, a young marketing director.<\/p>\n

“Nobody knows where we’re going and this climate is prone to manipulation.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Tunisia’s official news agency said on Monday\u00a0that a 14-year-old\u00a0boy\u00a0was killed by a stray bullet\u00a0during a violent protest in\u00a0the inland town of Sidi Bouzid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TAP cited the district security chief, Samir Melliti, as saying the teen\u00a0was hit by a “stray bullet” in clashes between security forces and\u00a0protesters on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The agency\u00a0said the police and troops fired warning shots to\u00a0disperse the crowd, which hurled gasoline bombs and stones.<\/p>\n

Two other people were wounded in the clashes, one of them seriously, a local medic told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

“There was major fighting late into the night in Sidi Bouzid and in Regueb,” said Ali Zarai, a\u00a0local unionist.<\/p>\n

Six months after an unprecedented uprising led to the shock ousting of longtime president\u00a0Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali<\/a>, many Tunisians fear that the revolution’s achievements\u00a0are being\u00a0lost.<\/p>\n

“The people of Sidi Bouzid<\/a> are angry. Six months after the revolution, they still haven’t seen any change and they are demonstrating against the government of Beji Caid Essebsi,” Zarai said.<\/p>\n

Sidi Bouzid is the town where street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi<\/a> set himself on fire on December 17 in protest at police harassment, touching off the uprising that\u00a0led to the\u00a0president fleeing the country.<\/p>\n

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