Tunisia: PDP Central Committee Supports National Unity Government

24 January 2011

Tunis — The central committee of the progressive democratic party PDP affirmed support to the option of a national unity government to ensure transition towards democracy, calling for "extending again consultations with the different political forces and tendencies over the 4 ministerial portfolios after the withdrawal of candidates".

In a statement published at the end of an extraordinary meeting held on saturday under chairmanship of Mrs Maya Jribi, secretary general, the PDP noted that "the national responsibilities of the PDP and the party's loyalty to martyrs demand that it supports this transitional salvation government ". The point is also, it added, "to do one's utmost so that the transitional government might break with tyranny and with the old system and start a real democratic experience of citizenship, justice and liberty for all the tunisians ".

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