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Tunisian president Kais Saied announced Sunday he was invoking emergency constitutional powers to assume total executive control of the nation following a wave of protests.
Saied, a political independent, removed the prime minister, defense minister, and justice minister from their posts and suspended the country’s parliament, he announced in a televised
address Sunday. The announcement came amid a series of protests against the Islamist group Ennahda, Tunisia’s largest political party, the
The Tunisian army was deployed around the parliament building to prevent members of parliament from entering it, according to the Guardian. Saied’s actions were met with celebrations from crowds in the nation’s capital, Tunis.
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Hopes of a political solution to Tunisia’s economic crisis are fading fast among those living on the breadline, who say they are struggling to survive as the economy continues to crumble.
Stymied by infighting, Tunisia’s fractured parliament and leadership are unable to act to rectify the impact of decades of economic mismanagement and the coronavirus pandemic, which has added strain on the country’s ailing finances.
I live off handouts from my mother s pension, or from my fiancée, who works in a factory
Nassredine
Disillusioned by the country’s politicians and unable to find work at home, Tunisia’s youngest and brightest are leaving for Europe in droves by whatever means they can. For those who remain, a life of destitution is all they have, even if they are highly qualified.