Tunisian holds talks to form a national unity government

Tunisia’s Ennahda party and the Nidaa Tounes party held a bilateral meeting on Monday to discuss an initiative launched by President Beji Caid Essebsi to form a national unity government.

In a statement, Ennahda said in a statement yesterday that the meeting was held at the headquarters of Nidaa Tounes in the Tunisian capital, and was attended by Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi, as well as Nidaa Tounes’s Hafez Caid, Anis Gadira, Sufian Toubal, Abdul Aziz Qotti. Ennahda’s Noor Al-Arabawi and Noureddine Al-Behiri also took part in the meeting.

The meeting included an exchange of views on the Tunisian president’s initiative to form a national unity government, the statement said.

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