Kaïs Saïed persists and signs.
More than eight weeks after his coup that froze Parliament and led to the dismissal of the government, the president promulgated a decree on Wednesday evening which allows him to legislate, thus de facto replacing Parliament and the government.
The text, described as a "
mini-Constitution
" by analysts, also paves the way for a reform of the Basic Law.
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To justify the new text of 23 articles, the presidency mentions the “
sovereignty of the people
” and the danger “which
has not become imminent but real, especially within the Assembly of the Representatives of the People
”.
Parliament remains suspended and the President of the Republic "
exercises executive power with the help of a Council of Ministers, headed by a head of government
" that Kaïs Saïed has not yet appointed.
The first part of the Constitution concerning rights and freedoms is maintained.
It is the second part of the text, which organizes the powers, that the president wants to change
Rachida Ennaifer, former communications advisor to the president
Mouna Dridi, specialist in constitutional law and professor at the University of Carthage, considers that this presidential decree is "
a transitional measure which results in the suspension
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