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Ali Larayedh resigns as Tunisia's PM to make way for caretaker government Ali Larayedh resigns as Tunisia's PM to make way for caretaker government
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Tunisia's Islamist prime minister, Ali Larayedh, has resigned, handing power to a caretaker administration in a deal with opponents to put the country's transition to democracy back on track. Tunisia's Islamist prime minister has announced his resignation in favour of a caretaker government that will supervise new elections.
"I have just handed my resignation to the president," he told reporters. "The president will appoint the new prime minister Mehdi Jomaa shortly, and he will present his new cabinet in the next few days." Ali Larayedh, from the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, had agreed to step down after lengthy negotiations with the opposition following a political crisis brought about by the assassination of a left-wing politician in July.
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. The resignation of the Ennahda-led government in favour of a cabinet of technocrats has been seen as an implicit admission of the Islamists' failure to manage the transition following the 2011 overthrow of Tunisia's dictator.
Tunisia's assembly is in the process of approving a new constitution, and elections for a new government will be held this year.
"I hope the country will be a model for democratic transition," Larayedh told reporters on Thursday after presenting his resignation at the presidential palace.
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