Tunisian president Kais Saied announced Sunday he was invoking emergency constitutional powers to assume total executive control of the nation following a wave of protests.
Saied, a political independent, removed the prime minister, defense minister, and justice minister from their posts and suspended the country’s parliament, he announced in a televised address Sunday. The announcement came amid a series of protests against the Islamist group Ennahda, Tunisia’s largest political party, the Guardian reported.
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