Tunis: Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali will dissolve government and form national unity cabinet, a British news agency stated on Wednesday.
According to Reuters citing official sources, the decision was taken after Tunisia’s secular opposition Popular Front said it was pulling out of the constituent assembly charged with writing a constitution after an opposition politician was killed on Wednesday.
Prominent Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid was gunned down outside his home in Tunis on Wednesday, sparking angry protests by his supporters and attacks on offices of the ruling Islamist Ennahda party.
Popular Front spokesman Hamma Hammami said the opposition was also calling for a general strike to protest against the murder of Chokri Belaid, who was gunned down in front of his home in Tunis on Wednesday.
President Moncef Marzouki also denounced the killing of Belaid, an outspoken critic of his government, as an “odious assassination,” while Ennahda chief Rached Ghannouchi told AFP the killers wanted a “bloodbath.”
The murder sparked outrage, with violence reminiscent of the uprising that ousted veteran dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali just over two years ago, and thousands rallying outside the interior ministry.
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