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October 16, 2012: Opening of the National Congress for Dialogue, attended by the three presidents—Moncef Marzouki, Hammadi Jebali, and Mustapha Ben Jaffar. This gathering of more than 40 parties began at the Palais des Congrès, at the initiative of the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT), to resolve the “tensions” that are delaying the drafting of the founding document for post-revolutionary Tunisia by the National Constituent Assembly (NCA). In a sign of ongoing conflicts, two of the three parties in the governing coalition—the Islamist Ennahda party and President Marzouki’s Congress for the Republic—announced on Monday that they would boycott the meeting due to the presence of a reviled opposition party, Nidaa Tounès

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