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Spotlight TUNISIA Issue dated 14/02/2013

Clan mentality behind political crisis

Prime minister Hamadi Jebali’s desire to set up a technocratic government against the wishes of his own Ennahda party, and the switch in loyalties and infighting his position has entailed, defies any easy political explanation. But not an analysis based [...] (484 words)

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