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Tunisia: Record low election turnout questions Saied’s legitimacy

December 18, 2022 MEO Staff

Tunisian electorates deliver crushing rebuke to President Kais Saied by failing to show up to vote in the country’s parliamentary elections Tunisia’s parliamentary elections on Saturday registered one of the lowest electoral turnouts ever recorded [ More … ]

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Tunisia: Most Tunisians rejected referendum and Saied should resign and hold early elections, says NSF

July 26, 2022 MEO Staff

Tunisian National Salvation Front has declared in a statement that most Tunisians have rejected the “referendum play” and President Saied should resign and hold early elections. The opposition front stressed its adherence to the constitution [ More … ]

Tunisia

Tunisia: Venice Commission declared persona non grata after criticizing President

June 1, 2022 MEO Staff

After the Venice Commission criticized President Kais Saied’s plans for a constitutional referendum, Saied declared the organization persona non grata and told it to “take care of its gondolas” instead. On May 27, the Venice [ More … ]

Algeria

Algerian president says “Tunisia has gone off democratic path”

May 28, 2022 MEO Staff

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has become increasingly isolated as political climate continues to deteriorate in country, and Algerian president offers help Algeria’s president has offered to help Tunisia return to the “democratic path” as political [ More … ]

Tunisia

Tunisia: Jailing prominent lawyer sign of unsafety to Saied critics, says rights watchdog

March 16, 2022 MEO Staff

After altercation with security agents, where Abderrazak Kilani, the former head of the National Bar of Association, criticized Tunisian President Kais Saied, the prominent lawyer was arrested and imprisoned. “The imprisonment of the former head [ More … ]

Tunisia

Tunisia: Joint letter to Biden to press Saied for restoration of democracy

March 4, 2022 MEO Staff

US former diplomats and foreign policy experts, including government officials, former US ambassadors, and MENA analysts say Tunisian President Kais Saied’s coup against democracy threatens the foundations of the US-Tunisia relationship The letter stressed that [ More … ]

Tunisia

Tunisia: President Saied dissolves Supreme Judicial Council

February 8, 2022 MEO Staff

Tunisian President Kais Saied has dissolved the Supreme Judicial Council, the body that deals with judicial independence, a move that raises fears about the independence of the judiciary. Saied’s decision caps months of his sharp [ More … ]

Tunisia

Tunisia: Following crackdown on protests, rights groups warn ‘freedoms at risk’

January 18, 2022 MEO Staff

Rights groups say freedoms ‘face an imminent peril’ after police used water cannons and tear gas at a demonstration against President Kais Saied last week Tunisian human rights groups have warned that freedoms in the [ More … ]

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Egyptian intelligence officer behind crackdown on Tunisia’s Ennahda party, report

January 12, 2022 MEO Staff

Colonel Ali Mohamed al-Farran, a senior Egyptian official liaising with Tunisia’s Presidential Security, plans ‘to replicate the Egyptian experience’, reported Middle East Eye A senior Egyptian intelligence officer, who is liaising with Tunisia’s Presidential Security, [ More … ]

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Tunisia: Senior Ennahda leader “Bhiri” ‘in critical condition’ after ‘abduction’

January 5, 2022 MEO Staff

Bhiri is being ‘deprived of his medication’ and ‘his life is threatened’, Ennahdha officials say. Family and friends of hunger-striking opposition MP Noureddine Bhiri warn he is ‘between life and death’ at a hospital after [ More … ]

Tunisia

Tunisia: Marzouki says the sentence against him “absurd, has no effect”

December 26, 2021 MEO Staff

Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki described the four-year jail sentence handed to him as “a continuation of tampering”, and stressed that “it means nothing, because it was issued by illegal parties.” “I can find nothing [ More … ]

Tunisia

Tunisia: Protests outbreak in capital over president’s exceptional procedures

September 18, 2021 MEO Staff

Tunisian demonstrators in Tunis chanted ‘the people want the coup to fail’ and called for restoration of parliament Hundreds of Tunisians took to the streets in the capital, Tunis, on Saturday to protest against President [ More … ]

Analysis

ًBehind Tunisian president’s move to seize reins of power

August 11, 2021 MEO Staff

Tunisian president was reportedly driven by feud with party elites to seize reins of power in the country, according to Reuters. As he was driven to an urgently scheduled national security meeting with the president, [ More … ]

Analysis

EU losing democracy in Tunisia in favor of regional autocracy, says former Italian PM

August 4, 2021 MEO Staff

The West’s silence regarding the situation in Tunisia shows their support for autocratic regimes including those in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, who stand behind the coup, former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said in an [ More … ]

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IS celebrates Tunisian president’s coup on democracy!

August 2, 2021 MEO Staff

Social media accounts have circulated details of an Islamic State (IS) publication celebrating the coup carried out by Tunisian President Kais Saied. The terrorist organization considers that Saied’s action constitutes a setback for the democratic [ More … ]

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