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Ennahda exfiltrated from government?

Five weeks after his April 30 reshuffle, prime minister Youssef Chahed could change the government line-up once again. According to [...]

Published on 08.06.2017 at 03:30 GMT

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Beji Caid Essebsi
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Nidaa Tounes
Rached Ghannouchi
UGTT
Youssef Chahed

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Taieb Baccouche sees himself in Carthage Palace

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Tunisia
Chahed offers Brahem's head to Ennahda

In dismissing interior minister Lotfi Brahem on June 6 after 84 migrants died when their boat sank off the Kerkennah [...]

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Tunisia
Chahed could yet escape the sack

Even though Nidaa Tounes, Ennahda, the UGTT and UTICA, all of which were consulted by Beji Caid Essebsi under the [...]

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Tunisia
"BCE" still wants to neutralise Chahed

The sacred month of Ramadan, which starts today, will not be a time of political truce between President Beji Caid [...]

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Youssef Chahed wants to be free of Essebsi before 2019

The hand-to-hand fighting between President Beji Caid Essebsi (BCE) and his prime minister, Youssef Chahed, has been restrained until now but is going to become more intense as the government reshuffle, expected after the September 1 Eid al-Adha celebration, approaches.

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Youssef Chahed and Beji Caid Essebsi (BCE).

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Sheikh Al Nahyan in anti-Ennahda crusade

The United Arab Emirates, which is leading the Qatar diplomatic [...]

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"BCE" struggles to get a grip on Tataouine revolt

The protests sweeping across the Tataouine region are not only the result of the widespread unemployment afflicting southern Tunisia. President Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE") is also paying for his erratic management of the most serious social crisis in the country [.

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Tunisia
Chahed set to go after Ramadan

President Beji Caid Essebsi finally did not announce a reshuffle on May 10, but prime minister Youssef Chahed is still [...]

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Tunisia
Youssef Chahed pushed towards the exit

There was nothing haphazard about Youssef Chahed’s appeal on the Wataniya TV channel on March 16 for his government to [...]

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UGTT and UTICA at war after BCE-Ghannouchi break-up

Despite the renewal of support from the signatories of the 2016 Carthage Declaration for prime minister Youssef Chahed on March 11, the agreement, which made possible the formation of the government of national union, is more than ever under threat.

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Chahed's government on brink of financial abyss

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) refusal to disburse a second instalment of a loan, announced on Feb. 27 by finance minister Lamia Zribi, is just one of the financial bombs threatening Youssef Chahed's government.According to our sources, Tunisia's other donors [.

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Municipal elections speed up BCE-Ghannouchi split

The approach of the municipal elections, which are due to be held before the end of 2017, will speed up the process of divorce between President Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE") and Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi, the warring brothers who have [.

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Counter-terrorism boss Rajhi takes charge of the police

The appointment of Ramzi Rajhi to replace the exhausted Abderrahmen Belhaj Ali (read below) as head of the DGSN national security directorate on December 16 is only the latest stage in Rajhi’s lightning rise through the ranks at the Ministry [.

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Ennahda and the Essebsis seal an "eternal" alliance

In reshuffling the government on January 6 and then propelling his son Hafedh Caid Essebsi to the leadership of his Nidaa Tounes party on January 10, Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE") has completed a process he begun as soon as he [.

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Spotlight | Tunisia
President's staff races for the exits

The atmosphere is bleaker than ever at the Carthage Palace, residence of Tunisia’s president. The possibility that Moncef Marzouki could be sacrificed in an agreement between Ennahda and the opposition Nidaa Tounes party (see opposite) has sent some of the [.

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Tunisia
Hamidi casts himself as “third way”

While talks between Ennahda and the opposition are having trouble getting off the ground (MC 1081), the Alliance Democratique would [...]

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Ghannouchi isolated, Ennahda split in two

If they aren’t likely to resolve Tunisia’s political crisis, talks between Ennahda and the opposition that kicked off on Oct. 4 will certainly increase tension within the Islamist party and cut its president, Rached Ghannouchi, off from the movement’s hardliners.

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Tunisia
Ennahda exfiltrated from government?

Tunisia
Taieb Baccouche sees himself in Carthage Palace

Tunisia
Chahed offers Brahem's head to Ennahda

Tunisia
Chahed could yet escape the sack

Tunisia
"BCE" still wants to neutralise Chahed

Spotlight | Tunisia
Youssef Chahed wants to be free of Essebsi before 2019

Tunisia
Sheikh Al Nahyan in anti-Ennahda crusade

Spotlight | Tunisia
"BCE" struggles to get a grip on Tataouine revolt

Tunisia
Chahed set to go after Ramadan

Tunisia
Youssef Chahed pushed towards the exit

Spotlight | Tunisia
UGTT and UTICA at war after BCE-Ghannouchi break-up

Spotlight | Tunisia
Chahed's government on brink of financial abyss

Spotlight | Tunisia
Municipal elections speed up BCE-Ghannouchi split

Spotlight | Tunisia
Counter-terrorism boss Rajhi takes charge of the police

Spotlight | Tunisia
Ennahda and the Essebsis seal an "eternal" alliance

Spotlight | Tunisia
President's staff races for the exits

Tunisia
Hamidi casts himself as “third way”

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