Doha — Tunisia's former interior minister has warned that lingering members of the country's former political elite may carry out a coup d'etat if Islamists win a majority in the upcoming election.
"If [Islamist party] al-Nahda takes power, there will be a coup d'etat," Farhat Rajhi, who served as interior minister after the Tunisian uprising, said in a video that has circulated widely among Tunisian Facebook users.
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