TUNIS: Street clashes erupted on Monday (Jul 26) outside Tunisia's army-barricaded parliament, a day after President Kais Saied ousted the prime ...
TUNIS: Street clashes erupted on Monday outside Tunisia's army-barricaded parliament, a day after President Kais Saied ousted the prime minister and suspended the legislature, plunging the young democracy into a constitutional crisis.
The crisis follows months of deadlock between the president, the premier and Ennahdha chief Rached Ghannouchi, which has crippled the COVID-19 response as deaths have surged to one of the world's highest per capita rates. But the shock move was criticised abroad, with Germany urging a rapid"return to constitutional order".
Ghannouchi retorted that"the Tunisian people will never accept an authoritarian government, whatever your efforts". Tunisia has recently been overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases which have raised the death toll to more than 18,000 in a nation of 12 million.Sunday's political drama began with mass protests against the government for its failures in tackling the pandemic.
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