“As far as the government is concerned, the first challenge is to form a government which is based not on an ethnic and sectarian affiliation. We should have a government committed to oversee the reform and social development programmes.”

— Raid Jahid Fahmi

Interview with Al Jazeera (25 May 2018)

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