Tunis (Reuters) – Thousands of Tunisians protested on Saturday against the new prime minister-designate Ali Larayedh, a hardliner from the main Islamist Ennahda party.
President Moncef Marzouki asked Larayedh to form a government on Friday, in the aftermath of the February 6 assassination of secular opposition politician Chokri Belaid.
Outgoing prime minister Hamadi Jebali resigned on Tuesday because Ennahda rejected his plan for an apolitical technocrat cabinet to prepare for elections.
Larayedh, the new premier-designate, is controversial because opposition secularists accuse the Interior Ministry which he headed of failing to curb Islamist violence.
There is only one way to resolve this. First off the secularists have to level the playing field and making all the participants equal. They have to assassinate the “Islamysticyst” leader. Then the two sides can start as equals.
They are brave and fighting for a worthy goal, however without out some western nation providing them with weapons and funding they are doomed.