Tunisian parliament approves apolitical government line-up
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From right, #Tunisia's premier-designate Mehdi Jomaa, Justice Minister Hafedh Ben Salah and Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou attend a parliamentary session to present Jomaa’s new government in the Constituent Assembly on January 28, 2014 in Tunis. (Photo: AFP - Fethi Belaid)
Tunisia’s parliament on Wednesday approved a technocratic caretaker government tasked with leading the country out of a bruising political crisis and to fresh elections. After a marathon session broadcast live on national television, the line-up proposed by Prime Minister-designate Mehdi Jomaa was approved by 149 lawmakers, with 20 voting against and 24 abstaining. The line-up was only agreed after weeks of horsetrading and will replace the government led by the Islamist al-Nahda party, (...)