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PARIS (Reuters) - Michèle Alliot-Marie rejected any suggestion of resignation from his post as foreign minister address the controversy surrounding his holiday in Tunisia end of December, in full opposition to the regime of Zine Ben Ali.

After the confirmation of a second trip in the private jet of a Tunisian businessman associated with the "clan" Ben Ali, Justice Minister in two talks on Monday was not at fault, while saying understand the emotion aroused by the conditions of his vacation in Tunisia with her partner Patrick Ollier, also a member of the government. She also answered questions on Europe 1 on Monday morning, saying in a slip: "I think there are so many lies and cons-truths that have been made that I understand that people are questioning . All that was alleged, all the suspicions that had focused on me, I can demonstrate (Sic) easily.

"I realize that people were shocked, I know the lesson here. If I were offered again, I would accept of course not," she said in an interview published by Le Parisien .

After an initial controversy about the fact that she sat with her companion in the plane of the businessman Aziz Miled for a leisure trip between Hammamet and Tabarka, the Minister confirmed after press revelations that there is a second excursion in the same aircraft. "I unzip"

She visited with Patrick Ollier in the tourist town of Tozeur in the south, December 29.

events had now reached the capital and Zine Ben Ali came to speak on television to try stem the movement which was a push start Jan. 14.

Aziz Miled's position vis-à-vis the regime of Ben Ali is controversial, the minister presented it as a "victim", but other elements suggesting it was close. He had signed a petition calling for a new candidate in 2014 the president in power since 1987 and was a partner, without having had the choice, according to the French Minister, with several members of the family of the wife of Ben Ali.

The minister said she has the right to set aside his office: "In my private life, with my family and friends, I am not in a formal representation, I decompress. "

The Socialist Party calls for his resignation but the UMP refuses to consider it, saying that its credibility is not achieved.

Three days before the overthrow of Zine Ben Ali, Michele Alliot-Marie proposed to his regime "know-how" of France for the operations of law enforcement.

Thierry Leveque