On 5 November thirty Members of Parliament from Tunisia’s ruling secularist Nidaa Tounes (Call of Tunisia) party have suspended their membership and are threatening to resign if there “will be no meeting of the executive committee in one week”. Nidaa Tounes has been faced with internal disputes that have caused a split between a faction surrounding its Secretary General and a former leftist activist, Mohsen Marzouk, and a faction loyal to President Essebsi's son Hafedh Caid Essebsi. Negotiations and meetings have led to no consensus, but instead deepened the crisis in the party. If the thirty MPs resign, Nidaa Tounes , which holds 85 seats in parliament, might lose its majority to the rival Islamist Ennahda movement.
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