Yet to take office, Tunisia's rainbow government faces cloudy future


  • World
  • Monday, 22 Aug 2016

Tunisia's Prime Minister-designate Youssef Chahed in Tunis, Tunisia August 3, 2016. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

TUNIS (Reuters) - Prime Minister Youssef Chahed's new government promises to be the most inclusive since Tunisia's 2011 revolution, encompassing all six major parties, independents and allies of often hostile trade unions.

But even before parliament votes to approve it, Chahed's experiment with diversity is running into the kind of pressures and divisions that have doomed his predecessors' attempts to win the political capital needed to push through reforms.

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