Journalists of state-owned newspaper La Presse elected the members of their editorial board on Friday, January 13th, in a reversal of the highly controversial decision of Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali to directly nominate the editor-in-chief on Saturday January 7th.
The election, which was observed by a legal trustee and a representative from the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT), gave the same result as Jebali's nomination: Mongi El Gharbi as editor-in-chief. Lassaâd Ben Ahmed was elected as coeditor-in-chief and Sofiene Ben Farhat, Rafik Herguem, Olfa Belhassine, Raouf Seddik, and Nizar Hajbi as members of the editorial board.
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