Arabic News Weekly Edition for Tunisia, 10/18/2004
Weekly Edition, Tunisia - Week of October 18, 2004
- Main opposition party in Tunisia withdraws from elections
The main opposition party in Tunisia withdrew its 89 candidates in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, saying that the government prevented them from reaching their message to the voters. Tunisia, Politics, 10/22/2004 - Tunisian opposition wants presidential elections monitored, accuses government of confiscating freedoms
The Tunisian opposition deplored what it called the confiscation of political freedoms and the will of people and the media in Tunisia. In a conference it held in Paris on Saturday, one week before the presidential elections in the country, the opposition parties accused the government of harassing the rivals of President Zine al-Abidin Ben Ali. Tunisia, Politics, 10/18/2004