Thousands of people have come out this Saturday at streets of tunisia in a new and massiveto protest against the president from the country, Kais Saiedwhom they accuse of having starred in a self-coup after assuming the powers of Parliament, in a commemorative march of the 12th anniversary of the Jasmine Revolution that overthrew former President Zine al Abidine Ben Ali.
Hours before the start of the protest marches, the security forces have been deployed in all the main streets in the center of the capital of the same name, as reported by the correspondent of the pan-Arab media outlet Al Arabiya.
Political parties and organizations issued statements with reason for the commemoration of January 14in which they agreed to “continue the fight” to translate the slogans raised during the events of the revolution, and to confront what they described as “President Saied’s path to evade democracy”, according to a joint statement collected by the official agency Tunisian news agency TAP.
In a gesture of defiance, Saied walked Friday night along the main avenue of the capital, Habib Bourguiba, where he warned that “there is no place for traitors in the country”, before declaring that “those who accuse Tunisia of being a dictatorship are the same ones who want to destroy it”.
Saied has promoted a series of measures to reform Tunisia’s political system since July 2021, including a constitutional referendum, approved in the midst of the opposition boycott, which reinforces the powers of the Presidency. The opposition has denounced an authoritarian drift of the president and has demanded his resignation.
Source: Lasexta
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