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| Ali Larayedh to resign as Tunisian prime minister | Ali Larayedh to resign as Tunisian prime minister |
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| Tunisia's Islamist prime minister, Ali Larayedh, will resign on Thursday, handing power to a caretaker administration in a deal with opponents to put the country's transition to democracy back on track, the state news agency has said. | |
| "The prime minister … has declared he will hand his resignation to the president on Thursday afternoon," said a statement from the president's office, according to the news agency TAP. | "The prime minister … has declared he will hand his resignation to the president on Thursday afternoon," said a statement from the president's office, according to the news agency TAP. |
| Three years after an uprising against the autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia is in the final stages of establishing a full democracy that would be a rare bright spot in an unstable region. | |
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