Tunisia: President Kais Saïed and Prime Minister Discuss the Relationship Between Administration and Its Users
- Opponents and supporters of President Kais Saied held rival protests in Tunis, with riot police deployed to separate them on May 22, 2025.
- These demonstrations follow months of government crackdowns on critics, including the arrest of lawyer Ahmed Souab and opposition leaders jailed on conspiracy charges.
- Saied seized powers in 2021 by shutting the elected parliament and ruling by decree, claiming legality and the need to end corruption and chaos amid accusations of autocracy.
- Protesters chanted slogans like 'Saied go away, you are a dictator,' while his supporters called for no foreign interference and his continued leadership.
- President Saied emphasized Tunisia needs new legislation and accountable public management to address divisions and ensure administration serves all citizens fairly.
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Although Kais Saïed had not proposed a specific programme during the campaign that led to his re-election, his new term of office was announced as that of the implementation of the new system inaugurated with the Constitution of 2022. For now, economic reforms have been adopted and a new Prime Minister is in place, but many major changes are pending.
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Five Years After Saied’s Coup, Tunisia is Learning the Costs of One-Man Rule
July 25 marked five years since Tunisian President Kais Saied suspended the elected parliament, dismissed the government and began ruling by decree. He called it a rescue mission, a necessary response to a paralyzed political class and a country in crisis, while promising to fight corruption, restore dignity to ordinary Tunisians and build a "new republic" answerable directly to the people. Instead, Saied has achieved none of his promises while …
By Ali Bouzerda "What touches the heart of the Maghreb strikes all its capitals." — The Moroccan committed poet, Abdellatif Laâbi. This literary proverb resonates painfully today. How, in Morocco, can one remain indifferent to what is happening in Tunis? One thing is clear, the Tunisia of Kais Saïed, five years after his election, closed [...]
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