Tunisia’s Morjane says ‘people had their say’

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SHARM EL-SHEIKH: The Tunisian transitional government’s only ambition is to prepare for a free election and reforms after the Tunisian people “had their say”, Foreign Minister Kamel Morjane said on Tuesday.

“The Tunisian people have had their say and won in this popular uprising,” he told reporters in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh.

“We would like to confirm this is a transitional government and its goal is clear and its term is limited by law and by agreement between all parties,” said Morjane, who flew to the Egyptian resort to brief Arab foreign ministers.

“Its goal is to set up free presidential elections with integrity … that will have foreign monitors or observers,” he said.

Morjane was a minister in the government of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was forced to flee last week after a popular uprising.

Ben Ali’s party, the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD), retained the key foreign, interior, defense and finance ministries, even after hundreds of protesters in Tunis and other cities on Monday demanded that the party be abolished.

Morjane said the government would investigate those behind armed clashes in the country as well as launch an investigation into corruption. He added that reforms would also focus on social and economic grievances.

“We have to get out of this situation with positive results, and not politically. There will be political reforms but also (reforms for) what we wished socially,” he said.

 

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