Tunisia's main secular party open to Islamist coalition


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  • Monday, 17 Mar 2014

Beji Caid Essebsi, former Tunisian prime minister and leader of the Nida Touns (Call of Tunisia) secular party, speaks during a news conference in Tunis February 19, 2014. REUTERS/Anis Mili

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's main secular party that helped push ruling Islamists out of office last year is open to governing with them if 2014 elections do not produce a clear majority, its party chief said.

Three years after its uprising against Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia is preparing for its second free election that will complete a transition to democracy praised as a model of political compromise in an unstable region.

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