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Tag: President Kaïs Saïed
Human Rights Watch alerts to Tunisia’s authoritarian drift under President Saied
With thousands jailed for expressing dissent, destroyed checks and balances and an undermined civil society, Tunisia has backpedaled to autocracy following a crackdown on civil ... Read More
Tunisian President looks to taxes to shun IMF bailout
Tunisian President Kais Saied is set to reject IMF conditions for a $2 billion loan and looks instead to raise taxes on the wealthy to ... Read More
Tunisia: Kais Saied opposes agreement with IMF
Tunisia has been running for more than a year behind an IMF loan and its biggest partners, in particular the European Union, and the United ... Read More
Tunisia: President dissolves municipal councils
Tunisian President Kais Saied announced the dissolution of municipal councils, months before the municipal elections, further dismantling the systems of government developed after the 2011 ... Read More
Tunisians have lost trust in President Kais Saied – US Senator Chris Murphy says
Chris Murphy, a US democrat Senator, said that Tunisians have lost trust in President Kais Saied, while commenting on the second round of parliamentarian elections ... Read More
Tunisia: Kais Saied shakes up cabinet lineup
Tunisian President Kais Saied conducted Monday a slight cabinet reshuffle with the replacement of two ministers in the wake of an unpopular second round of ... Read More
Tunisia: Social tension mounting, difficult-to-overcome multidimensional crisis looming
The multidimensional crisis that Tunisia is going through continues to worsen day by day and social tensions are increasing amid multiple challenges including decline in ... Read More
Rights watchdogs: Tunisian President’s actions threaten press freedom
Tunisian and foreign rights watchdogs warn that President Kais Saied's actions threaten press freedom and the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings. ... Read More
Tunisian President’s unrelenting crackdown on opponents as economy crumbles
Tunisia’s president Kais Saied has put Tunisia on a track of autocracy taking power-grab decisions and measures to quell dissent, the latest of which was ... Read More
Thousands of Tunisians protest President Saied’s coup, demand his departure
Thousands of Tunisians from different regions of the country participated Saturday in capital Tunis in a demonstration to denounce President Kais Saied’s anti-democratic “coup” and ... Read More