Tunisia: new demonstration against President Saied

(ANSA) - TUNIS, SEPTEMBER 26 - A second protest demonstration against further exceptional measures ordered by Tunisian President Kais Saied last September 22, took place today in Tunis, in front of the Municipal Theater. It was organized by a group that defined itself as "citizens against the State coup" which had already gathered half a thousand people in the same place last Saturday.

    Today there were about double the demonstrators, many of them holding a copy of the Constitution and the national flag. Those present protested against Saied's new measures, which strengthen the powers of the Presidency to the detriment of the government and Parliament, chanting hostile slogans to the President, asking for his dismissal and instead asking for the Constitution to be kept in force, which in their view was "suspended "by Saied.

    Even if without party flags, according to observers, today's demonstration saw the presence of many adherents of the Islamist party Al Karama and the Islamic Ennhadha, the most affected by Saied's decisions to suspend the work of the Parliament, being the first political force in the classroom. . Ennhadhasta experiencing an internal political crisis that has led over 100, including leaders and historical members, to resign due to differences on the party's guideline.

    Last Monday at Sidi Bouzid President Saied in a speech called "a staging" last Saturday's demonstration against him in Tunis.

Yesterday, again in front of the Municipal Theater, a small group of supporters of the president demonstrated, some of whom burned specimens of the 2014 Constitution, which they defined as the "Constitution of Ennhadha" (ANSA).