Thursday, the day after the announcement of the dismissal of 57 judges by President Kaïs Saïed, the Tunis court was in turmoil.
As they passed each other, the lawyers wondered:
“What are the judges going to do?”
For some, the strike - yet prohibited to magistrates since February - was inevitable.
For others, they were going
to “go to bed”
:
“They are too afraid to be next on the list.”
Presidential decree 2022-516, published in the Official Journal (Jort) overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, dismisses 57 judges, accused of corruption, crimes and various misdemeanors.
On the same day, the Tunisian President, who granted himself full powers in September after having frozen Parliament, had an amendment published in the Jort giving himself the right to dismiss any judge
"due to an act attributed to him and which is likely to compromise the reputation of the judiciary, its independence or its proper functioning”.
A text that opposes the 2014 Constitution, partly suspended by the…
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