Under the provisions of the President of the Republic Kais Saied, the Tunisian police have closed the local headquarters of the Arab TV based in Qatar, Al Jazeera.
Journalists and employees were warned in good time to leave the sites, said the director of the Tunis office, Lotfi Hajji.
Shortly before, Al Jazeera on its Facebook page, based on "well-informed Tunisian sources", had written that Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi is not under arrest but at his home and that he intends to reunite the Council of Ministers anyway.
Moments of tension in front of the entrance to Parliament, whose security has been entrusted to the army since tonight. Two opposing groups were formed, on the one hand the supporters of the Tunisian president Kais Saied, on the other those of the Islamic party Ennhadha, which gathered its voters to "restore democracy" in the aftermath of President Saied's decision to suspend the work of the Assembly, revoke the immunity of deputies and dismiss Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi. According to the local radio Mosaique Fm, the president of the Parliament and leader of Ennahda Ghanouchi remains in his car in front of the gates. Tonight the army had prevented him from entering, according to Saied's orders. The situation is unprecedented and the results are unpredictable.In these circumstances, the head of the security union of the Tunis-Carthage international airport, Anis Ouartani, told state television Watania 1 that arrangements have been made in agreement with those responsible for banning politicians from traveling and to leave the country.
The decisions to
freeze Parliament for 30 days
, revoke the immunity of deputies and sack the premier do not represent "a coup d'état", they are constitutional decisions, pursuant to Article 80 of the Constitution: the Tunisian president said so. , Kais Saied, responding to the President of the Assembly as well as the leader of the Islamic party Ennhadha (first in parliament), Rached Ghannouchi. "Anyone who talks about a coup should read the Constitution or go back to the first year of primary school, I have been patient and I have suffered with the Tunisian people," Saied told state television.