Dozens of parliamentarians have been hauled in for questioning since last week's online parliamentary session that voted to rescind President Kaïs Saïed's rule by decree (Dispatches 1/4/22)...

'What is preserving Kaïs Saïed is the existence of organised opposition...

That say insiders could explain the European Commission's recent moves to guarantee €450 million of financial support to Tunisia despite President Kaïs Saïed dissolving parliament last week (Dispatches 1/4/22 President Saïed dissolves parliament and accuses MPs of treason but Brussels keeps the cash flowing)...

Prompted by rights activists business interests and opposition politicians in Tunisia the United States's Congress is linking official aid budgets to a reversing of President Kaïs Saïed's crackdown on democratic freedoms...

President Kaïs Saïed's power-grab in July and his determination to change the Tunisian political system have brought neither peace nor prosperity but instead have caused division and extreme social and economic precarity (AC Vol 62 No 22 Saïed channels Mussolini)...

In Tunisia a decade of economic failure exacerbated by political stasis allowed the academic President Kaïs Saïed to turn autocrat outflanking Ennahda in the latest phase of Tunisia's unfinished transition from Ben Ali...

Ennahda's inability to bring on new leaders led to internal discord well before some 113 senior members resigned as President Kaïs Saïed made his power grab on 25 September...

So far President Kaïs Saïed who has suspended the constitution indefinitely is winning but scepticism about his plans is growing...