Tag: Saied
President Kais Saied dissolves parliament, eight months after suspending it
Tunisian President Kais Saied announced on Wednesday the dissolution of Parliament, eight months after having suspended it to assume full powers in July 2021. Kais Saied made the announcement during…
More than 2,000 demonstrators against President Saied and his authoritarianism
Thousands of supporters of the Free Destourian Party (PDL, opposition) demonstrated in Tunis on Sunday to denounce the “grabbing of power” by President Kais Saied and the economic crisis in…
President Kais Saied expands his power over the judiciary
It is a measure perceived as a democratic setback in the cradle of the Arab Spring. Thousands of Tunisians took to the streets on Sunday to protest a controversial new…
Deemed biased, the Judicial Council dissolved by President Kais Saied
Tunisian President Kais Saied, who assumed full powers at the end of July, on Sunday dissolved the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM), which oversees justice, accusing it of bias…
President Kais Saied extends Parliament’s freeze for one year
Kais Saied does not let go of his power in Tunisia. The president on Monday extended the suspension of Parliament, which he decided in July by assuming full powers, until…
Kais Saied ensures “preparing the exit” from the state of emergency
President tunisianKais Saied assured “prepare the exit” from the state of emergency in force since July 25, during a telephone conversation with the head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken, the…
Thousands of demonstrators “against the coup” of Kais Saied
Several thousand demonstrators gathered on Sunday near the Tunisian Parliament, frozen for more than three months, to protest again against President Kais Saied’s decision to assume full powers, denouncing a…
President Kais Saied formalizes the strengthening of his powers
Tunisian President Kais Saied formalized his July 25 coup on Wednesday by promulgating exceptional provisions strengthening his powers to the detriment of the government and Parliament, which he will de…
Tunisian President: Saied extends powers
Status: 23.09.2021 12:26 a.m. Tunisia’s President Saied will be given significantly more powers. He had announced that he would rule by decree in the future. In July he suspended parliament…
President Kais Saied extends parliament freeze “until further notice”
Tunisian President Kais Saied has decided to extend “until further notice” the freezing of parliament, whose activities have been suspended since the July 25 coup, which allowed Kais Saied to…