TUNIS: Tunisia’s 92-year-old president, Beji Caid Essebsi, who helped guide the north African country's transition to democracy after a 2011 ...
TUNIS: Tunisia’s 92-year-old president, Beji Caid Essebsi, who helped guide the north African country's transition to democracy after a 2011 revolution, has died, the presidency said on Thursday .
In a statement, the presidency called on Tunisians to unite and safeguard their country's present and future."After the revolution, the president led the people to avoid confrontation and led the democratic transition and was keen to build and complete the constitutional institutions," said the presidency.
"Politically, there will be no problem. The political elite has enough awareness to manage it wisely like any democratic country." Tunisia has been hailed as the only democratic success of the Arab Spring uprisings, with a new constitution, free elections and a coalition government with secular and moderate Islamists in a region otherwise struggling with upheaval.
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