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Tunisia’s parliament was surrounded by barbed wire today, a day after President Kais Saied ordered its disbandment and extension of the eight-month state of emergency.
Saied said yesterday in the national security council, that he will prosecute the deputies who voted online against the extraordinary measures taken last year by the president.
He denounced the parliament’s move as a “coup” and said that those who had voted had betrayed the nation and would therefore be prosecuted.
The president elected in 2019 amid public unrest, on July 25 last year fired the government and gave himself increased political power.
He decided to pass laws with his decrees and take control of the judicial system in what the opposition called the destruction of democracy.
Saied’s moves were initially welcomed by Tunisians but critics say the measures lead the country towards autocracy.
Saied says the North African country’s 2014 constitution allows it to take ‘extraordinary measures’.
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