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Death threats delay Tunisian constitution vote
Tunisiaâs Constitutional Assembly on Monday prepared to select a new commission to oversee upcoming elections after its work was delayed over the weekend due to death threats
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unisia's Constitutional Assembly on Monday prepared toselect a new commission to oversee upcoming elections after its work wasdelayed over the weekend due to death threats.
The assembly is voting on Tunisia's post revolutionary constitution that is meant to install a democracy after a popular revolt overthrew the dictator in 2011. During the debate over the weekend, Habib Ellouze, a hardline lawmaker from the Islamist Ennahda party called left-wing deputy Mongi Rahoui an 'enemy of Islam.'
The Interior Ministry reported there had been death threats against Rahoui through the social networking site Facebook and said the 'necessary precations had been taken to protect those targeted.'
