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Tunisia has long been hailed as an Arab Spring success story in terms of democratic reform. But on the back of economic hurdles, Tunisia’s freely elected President is burning the ladder that brought him to power tightening his power grab, idling elected institutions and cracking down on dissent. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have […]
Thousands of Tunisians tried to storm the country’s Parliament in capital Tunis in protest to what they branded a “coup” after President Kais Saied closed the legislature and suspended the immunity of lawmakers. Security forces positioned in the vicinity of the Parliament managed to keep the protestors at bay. Protesters among the supporters of the […]
Abir Moussi, head of the Free Destourian Party has denounced results of 2019 elections arguing that they were rigged to benefit incumbent President Kais Saied. Speaking to local radio station Jawhara FM, Moussi finger-pointed Ennahdha party for rigging last presidential elections that took place following the death of President Caid Essebsi, Webdo Tunis reports. President, […]
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied Thursday laid into international rating agencies for using “biased criteria” in evaluating the country’s abilities to attract investments. This came during a meeting with the President of financial market council (CMF) Salah Sayel, a day after the country’s central bank (BCT) sounded the alarm over the waning of foreign reserves, the […]
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied announced Wednesday new exceptional measures to bolster his grab of all-out power effective since July 25, an announcement that triggered immediate criticism from his political rivals. The President enacted Wednesday a decree on these new exceptional measures that include the extension of the parliament’s suspension and lifting of MPs’ immunity. Likewise, […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied announced Monday the elaboration of a new electoral Code as part of new changes he wants to induce after seizing all powers on July 25, making it clear that the exceptional measures decreed on July 25 will continue. At an “unannounced” visit to the governorate of Sidi Bouzid, President Kais Saied […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied is working to conduct a constitutional change of the country’s supreme law following his seizure of the governing power and suspension of the parliament since July 25, his adviser Walid Hajjem has told Reuters. “This system cannot continue … changing the system means changing the constitution through a referendum, perhaps … […]
Tunisia’s anti-terrorism judicial center issued a committal warrant Tuesday against a young man from the Sahel region for threatening to assassinate President Kais Saied in Facebook posts. The young man, whose identity has not been revealed, reportedly confessed to having written and disseminated the offending statutes on his Facebook account. The incident comes amid […]
The Tunisian President Kais Saied is at it again! On Tuesday he branded the parliament as a “danger” for the state as he criticized corruption of lawmakers and state officials of the previous governments. Saied made the remark as he received Mohamed Boussaïd, the minister of trade and exports development, to discuss ways to put […]
The Tunisian ministry of Religious affairs has summoned a cleric who allegedly called during the Friday sermon President Kais Saied putschist in reference to his seizure of the executive power and suspension of the parliament since July 25. The preacher who has not been identified, was summoned after several civil society activists alerted the ministry […]