The party of Kamed Morjane, a former minister under ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, announced Friday its deputies were withdrawing from parliament and demanded the assembly’s dissolution.
“After the assassination of MP Mohamed Brahmi, the Al-Moubarada political bureau has decided to pull out its five representatives,” a senior member told Tunisian radio.
“We refuse to sit in the assembly under current circumstances.”
The UN human rights office urged official restraint.
“We urge the authorities in Tunisia to take great care not to inflame the situation further with excessive use of force and to respect the right of people to protest peacefully,” spokesman Rupert Colville told reporters in Geneva.
Brahmi was elected MP in October 2011 for Sidi Bouzid. On July 7, he resigned from the Popular Movement, which he founded, saying it had been infiltrated by Islamists.
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