Tunisian President Kais Saied waves to Tunisian citizens arsenic helium delivers a code during his sojourn to Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. Tunisia's president has announced plans to draught a caller electoral codification and name a transitional enactment and to bent connected to the exceptional powers that helium seized successful July, throwing the country's young ideology into question. (Slim Abid/Tunisian Presidency via AP)

Tunisian President Kais Saied waves to Tunisian citizens arsenic helium delivers a code during his sojourn to Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. Tunisia's president has announced plans to draught a caller electoral codification and name a transitional enactment and to bent connected to the exceptional powers that helium seized successful July, throwing the country's young ideology into question. (Slim Abid/Tunisian Presidency via AP)

TUNIS – Tunisian President Kaïs Saied issued statesmanlike decrees bolstering the already near-total powerfulness helium granted himself 2 months ago.

Wednesday's decrees see the continuing suspension of the Parliament’s powers and the suspension of each lawmakers’ immunity from prosecution. But the substance published successful the authoritative gazette went adjacent further — present freezing lawmakers’ salaries.

They besides authorities Saied's volition from present connected to regularisation by statesmanlike decree unsocial and disregard parts of the constitution. Laws volition not spell done the parliament, whose powers are frozen, granting him near-unlimited power.

On July 25, Saied sacked Tunisia’s premier minister, suspended parliament and assumed enforcement authority, saying it was due to the fact that of a nationalist emergency. His critics called it a coup.

For instrumentality prof Mouna Kraiem, the caller exigency measures magnitude to “the constitution of a dictatorship successful the afloat consciousness of the word.”

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Saied has denied wanting to beryllium a dictator, saying that helium yet aims to enactment his governmental reforms to the nationalist successful the signifier of a nationwide referendum. But his governmental critics stay skeptical of this intention.

The July lawsuit came aft years of economical sluggishness, but were triggered by a time of convulsive protestation and a emergence successful coronavirus cases.

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