Tunisia's Prime Minister Resigns -- Voice of America
Tunisia's Islamist-backed prime minister resigned Tuesday after failing to form a new government in response to the assassination of a leading secular opposition figure earlier this month.
Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali quit hours after saying his own Ennahda party had rejected his plan for a government of technocrats.
Jebali had announced his push for a non-partisan government February 6, just hours after secularist leader Chokri Belaid was shot to death at close range outside his home in the capital, Tunis. Belaid's supporters had accused Ennadha of being behind the killing, a charge the ruling party denies.
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