Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Live Blog

13 weeks 1 day ago - Tunisia

Tunisia's three main parties have formalised a power-sharing agreement, 10 months after the ouster of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the north African country's deposed president.

Hamadi Jebali of the moderate Islamist Ennahdha party, which took the most votes in elections last month, will serve as prime minister, while the other senior posts of president and chairman of the new constituent assembly are divided between two left-wing parties.

Moncef Marzouki of the leftist Congress for the Republic Party (CPR by its French acronym) will be president, and Ettakatol's Mustapha Ben Jaafar will chair the body tasked with drafting a new constitution.

The 217-member assembly will meet for the first time on Tuesday to confirm the three posts.

Read our news story for more detail and context: Tunisian parties agree power-sharing deal.

Tags Ennahdha party, Hamadi Jebali, power sharing deal, Tunisia election, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
20 weeks 4 days ago - Tunisia Election

Campaigining officially begins for Tunisia's October 23 election. Tunisians will be voting on a constitutent assembly, with elected officals tasked with writing a new constitution and deciding on what political system the country will be governed by in the new era.

The election will be the first since President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced from power in a popular uprising.

Tags North Africa, tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
26 weeks 2 days ago - Libya

In this file photo, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, center, with then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, his Yemeni counterpart Ali Abdullah Saleh, center left, and then-Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, far left during a group picture with Arab and African leaders during the second Afro-Arab summit in Sirte, Libya, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. [image | AP]

 

Tags Ali Abdullah Saleh, Hosni Mubarak, Libya in Images, tunis, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
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