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At an online meeting on 27 January with members of parliament which has been suspended since last July Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi struck a defiant posture against President Kaïs Saïed's attempt to rule by fiat and rewrite the constitution...
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Ahead of a referendum on a new constitution in July new voting laws and parliamentary elections in December President Kaïs Saïed has launched an online two-month consultation process after governing by decree since last July (AC Vol 62 No 17 Playing the waiting game)...
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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)...
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There are growing signs that President Kaïs Saïed is beginning to lose popular support for his suspension of parliament amid frustration over a deepening crisis in public finances...
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Vol 62 No 22 |
- NORTH AFRICA
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...
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By naming Najla Bouden Romdhane as Tunisia's first female prime minister on 29 September President Kaïs Saïed has briefly changed the political conversation but disclosed little about future policies...
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The PJD's working and lower-middle class urban support had been crumbling a process also seen in Tunisia where the base of another Islamist party Ennahda has diminished to the extent President Kaïs Saïed could suspend parliament and govern by decree (AC Vol 62 No 17 Playing the waiting game)...
Stunned by President Kaïs Saïed's decision to suspend parliament and govern by decree the major political parties led by the moderate Islamist party Ennahda are left playing the waiting game...
But its officials believe that the surge in public support for Saïed will quickly burn out as the constraints on governing by decree begin to bite (AC Dispatches 24/08/21 President Kaïs Saïed extends his suspension of parliament as he confronts Islamist opposition)...