{"id":37091,"date":"2013-08-07T07:47:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T14:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37091"},"modified":"2013-08-07T07:47:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T14:47:38","slug":"bbc-tunisia-crisis-tens-of-thousands-join-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/08\/07\/bbc-tunisia-crisis-tens-of-thousands-join-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Tunisia crisis: Tens of thousands join protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the largest demonstration of its kind since the latest political crisis began two weeks ago when a prominent opposition politician was assassinated.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the constituent assembly was suspended until the government and opposition open negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The assembly is drawing up a new constitution.<br \/>\nUnion call<\/p>\n<p>The protest in central Tunis was called by the opposition to demand the assembly&#8217;s dissolution and the resignation of the government, and to mark the six-month anniversary of the assassination of prominent secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) called on its 600,000 members to join the rally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people want the fall of the regime,&#8221; the crowds in Bardo Square shouted.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), Mustapha Ben Jaafar, said work on a new constitution and electoral law would resume once &#8220;dialogue commences&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ben Jaafar, whose Ettakatol party is part of the cabinet, condemned the failure of politicians to resolve the crisis.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-23597308\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nClick here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the largest demonstration of its kind since the latest political crisis began two weeks ago when a prominent opposition politician was assassinated. Earlier, the constituent assembly was suspended until the government and opposition open negotiations. The assembly is drawing up a new constitution. Union call The protest in central Tunis was called by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37092,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37091\/revisions\/37092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}