{"id":58175,"date":"2020-01-11T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58175"},"modified":"2020-01-11T11:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T03:00:40","slug":"tunisian-parliament-rejects-proposed-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58175","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian parliament rejects proposed government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Tunisian-parliament-rejects-proposed-government-834715?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/831\/83160288.295.jpg\" alt=\"File photo\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> TUNIS, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Tunisian parliament voted 134 to 72 against Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli&#8217;s proposed government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jemli&#8217;s failure to win the confidence vote means the North African country must restart a complex coalition-building process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jemli, an independent candidate, was nominated by the Islamist Ennahdha party, which came first in the October 2019 legislative polls but failed to secure a majority in the 217-seat parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed government had included independent figures, who Jemli said were best suited to initiate urgent reforms to tackle the worsening economic crisis in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Kais Saied now has 10 days to appoint a new prime minister, who needs to get approval for his government from the parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Youssef Chahed will continue as a caretaker premier until a new government is approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the impasse continues, the president can call fresh elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunisia has been in a state of turmoil since former dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali&#8217;s regime was overthrown in a mass upheaval in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country needs urgent economic reforms after successive governments struggled to tackle unemployment and inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunisia is also dealing with a large influx of refugees from neighboring Libya, as an increasing number of people are fleeing the war-ravaged country. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Tunisian parliament voted 134 to 72 against Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli&#8217;s proposed government. Jemli&#8217;s failure to win the confidence vote means the North African country must restart a complex coalition-building process. Jemli, an independent candidate, was nominated by the Islamist Ennahdha party, which came first in the October 2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}