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In Tunisia, Kaïs Saïed multiplies the turns of the screw

2023-02-21T16:14:55.523Z


DECRYPTION - The repression of the President of the Republic continues against the political opposition, trade unionists, magistrates, journalists.


In Tunis

An expulsion, a dismissal and a judicial summons.

The turn of the screw continues in Tunisia after the wave of arrests last week.

The opposition, which has been talking about dictatorship since President Kaïs Saïed's

"coup"

in July 2021, when he froze Parliament, is almost rubbing its hands, hoping that this hardening of power will allow a convergence of disputes.

On Tuesday, Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the Islamist party Ennahdha, a pet peeve of Kaïs Saïed, was summoned before the investigating judge of the anti-terrorist cell in Tunis.

This is his eighth call in less than a year.

This time the case involves a complaint from police officer Rached Ghannouchi.

Read alsoIn Tunisia, Kaïs Saïed considers his constitutional reform “historic”

Evoking a

“witch hunt”,

the party, at the center of power since the 2011 revolution and until the 2021 coup, expected, on Tuesday morning, an arrest of its leader: “The president (

of

the Republic, Kaïs Saïed)

seeks to break the momentum that the opposition has built and to…

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Source: lefigaro

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