Tunisian foreign minister's nomination opposed over Israel post
Date
1/23/2016 9:19:20 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Tunusian lawmakers opposed the nomination of a diplomat to the position of foreign minister because he served in Tel Aviv 20 years ago.
The Assembly of the Representatives of the People Tunisia’s parliament approved Khemaies Jhinaoui’s nomination as foreign minister last week but his candidacy received the lowest approval of all other ministers with 134 lawmakers voting in favor 29 against and 23 abstaining the French news site Dreuz.inforeported.
Among the Tunisian politicians who cited Jhinhaoui’s 1996 stint in Tel Aviv as their reason for opposing his nomination was Mohamed Abbou of the Democratic Current party which has three seats out of the parliament’s 217tunisienumerique.comreported.
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