Hundreds rallied for and against Tunisian President Kais Saied in central Tunis on Friday, on the eleventh anniversary of the start of a revolution that sparked the Arab Spring uprisings.
Saied in July this year sacked the government, froze parliament and seized far-reaching powers.
Parliamentarians and his Islamist-inspired opponents Ennahdha have bitterly opposed the moves, but many Tunisians tired of a system seen as corrupt and ineffective have welcomed them.
Several hundred anti-Saied protesters gathered near the city centre on Friday, shouting, “the people want the coup d’etat to fall”, referring to Saied’s power grab, as dozens of police looked on.
Some demonstrators held signs in support of the North African country’s 2014 constitution, which Saied said earlier this week he wants to revise and put to a new referendum.
A few hundred metres along Habib Bourguiba Avenue — the epicentre of demonstrations over a decade ago — and past hundreds of police officers…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
