who is ruling tunisia now?
Ali Laarayedh
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 On the day of the failed coup , Tombalbaye cut all diplomatic relations with Libya and Egypt , and invited all Libyan opposition groups to base themselves in Chad , and started laying claims to Fezzan on the grounds of " historical rights " . Gaddafi 's answer was to officially recognize on 17 September the FROLINAT as the sole legitimate government of Chad . In October , Chadian Foreign Minister Baba Hassan denounced Libya 's " expansionist ideas " at the United Nations . 

entailment
 Following his defeat in the civil war , Gaddafi 's system of governance was dismantled and replaced under the interim government of the NTC , who legalised trade unions and freedom of the press . In July 2012 , elections were held to form a new General National Congress ( GNC ) , who officially took over governance from the NTC in August . The GNC proceeded to elect Mohammed Magariaf as president of the chamber , and then voted Mustafa A.G. Abushagur as Prime Minister ; when Abushagar failed to gain congressional approval , the GNC instead elected Ali Zeidan to the position . In January 2013 , the GNC officially renamed the Jamahiriyah as the " State of Libya " . 

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 Beginning in 2011 , popular uprisings that came to be collectively known as the Arab Spring deposed dictatorships in Tunisia , Egypt and Yemen . Similar mass movements were put down in Bahrain and touched off the Syrian Civil War Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi was killed after a civil war . " Those accustomed to the region 's repressive status quo have been caught by surprise " , wrote two editors of an anthology of writings by younger Arabs . " Young Middle Easterners — typically viewed with trepidation as part of a reactionary ' Arab street ' or simply overlooked as masses passively acquiescing to despots — have shattered stereotypes by leading dignified struggles in the face of overwhelming repression . " 

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 In 1973 , the country held its first parliamentary elections ; however , two years later , the late emir dissolved the parliament and suspended the constitution after parliament rejected the State Security Law . The period between 2002 and 2010 saw three parliamentary elections . The first , held in 2002 was boycotted by the opposition , Al Wefaq , which won a majority in the second in 2006 and third in 2010 . The 2011 by @-@ election was held to replace 18 members of Al Wefaq who resigned in protest against government crackdown . 

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 To varying degrees , Nasser 's statist system of government was continued in Egypt and emulated by virtually all Arab republics , namely Algeria , Syria , Iraq , Tunisia , Yemen , Sudan , and Libya . Ahmed Ben Bella , Algeria 's first president , was a staunch Nasserist . Abdullah al @-@ Sallal drove out the king of North Yemen in the name of Nasser 's pan @-@ Arabism . Other coups influenced by Nasser included those that occurred in Iraq in July 1958 and Syria in 1963 . Muammar Gaddafi , who overthrew the Libyan monarchy in 1969 , considered Nasser his hero and sought to succeed him as " leader of the Arabs " . Also in 1969 , Colonel Gaafar Nimeiry , a supporter of Nasser , took power in Sudan . The Arab Nationalist Movement ( ANM ) helped spread Nasser 's pan @-@ Arabist ideas throughout the Arab world , particularly among the Palestinians , Syrians , and Lebanese , and in South Yemen , the Persian Gulf , and Iraq . While many regional heads of state tried to emulate Nasser , Podeh opined that the " parochialism " of successive Arab leaders " transformed imitation [ of Nasser ] into parody " . 
