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Urgent: Tunisian prime minister loses confidence vote

Xinhua, July 31, 2016 Adjust font size:

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid on Saturday lost a confidence vote in parliament, making his government a caretaker.

In a plenary session of the Assembly of People's Representatives (ARP), the national deputies decided by 118 cons, 3 pros and 27 abstentions on the renewal of confidence to authorize a new national government initialized last month by the Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi. Endit