Tunisian President's Party Remains in Government

The party of Tunisia's interim President, Moncef Marzouki, yesterday, February 11, 2013 announced it was reversing its decision to withdraw from the coalition government while talks continue on a political crisis worsened by the killing of an opposition politician.

Mohamed Abbou, Secretary General of the secular Congress for the Republic, CPR, told a news conference that the party that decided last weekend to pull out of the government would stay on for a week. The CPR is one of two junior non-Islamist partners in a coalition dominated by the Islamist Ennahda party.

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