Tunisia: President’s Power Grab Shakes Democracy To The Core

...elfth since Tunisia’s January 2011 revolution – after the ouster of predecessor Elyes Fakhfakh (MEES, 24 July 2020) Mr Saied, who has a legal background but previously worked as a TV commentator and as such is an outsider to Tunisia’s fractious party politics, was elected president in October 2019. He...