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Tunisia s president fires defence minister amid political upheaval Issued on: 27/07/2021 - 04:54 FILE PHOTO: A supporter of Tunisia s biggest political party, the moderate Islamist Ennahda, scuffles with a police officer near the parliament building in Tunis, Tunisia July 26, 2021. © Zoubeir Souissi, Reuters 7 min Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked the defence minister Monday, a day after ousting the prime minister and suspending parliament, plunging the young democracy into constitutional crisis in the midst of a pandemic. Advertising Read more Street clashes erupted Monday outside the army-barricaded parliament, after Saied dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and ordered parliament closed for 30 days, a move the biggest political party Ennahdha decried as a coup .

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