{"id":5154,"date":"2022-04-04T06:49:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T06:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=5154"},"modified":"2022-04-04T06:49:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T06:49:31","slug":"tunisias-president-dissolves-parliament-extending-power-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2022\/04\/04\/tunisias-president-dissolves-parliament-extending-power-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia\u2019s president dissolves parliament, extending power grab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/30\/tunisias-president-saied-dissolves-parliament\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/30\/tunisias-president-saied-dissolves-parliament<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tunisia\u2019s President Kais Saied has announced on state TV that he is dissolving the country\u2019s parliament, eight months after suspending it in a July power grab. He said on Wednesday that \u201cToday, at this historic moment, I announce the dissolution of the Assembly of Representatives of the people, to preserve the state and its institutions.\u201d He made the announcement at a meeting of the National Security Council, hours after parliamentarians held a plenary session online and voted through a bill against his \u201cexceptional measures.&#8221; Tunisia\u2019s justice minister, Leila Jeffal, subsequently asked the attorney general to open a judicial investigation against members of a suspended parliament on charges of \u201cconspiring against state security\u201d, local media said. Saied has stated that the Parliament is trying to overthrow him in a coup. Tunisian parliamentarians voted on Wednesday to repeal presidential decrees suspending their chamber and giving Kais Saied near-total power, openly defying him in an online session, although he dismissed their meeting as illegal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I find this whole situation funny as this leader seems to want total control but can&#8217;t seem to get it as this is not the first time he has attempted to dissolve Parliament. I don&#8217;t know enough about the situation to comment on whether his fears of a coup are real or not but from what little I have read I would guess they are not bound in reason. One thing I find hilarious about this whole situation is that this leader is a former law professor, which just adds to the irony in my opinion. On the geopolitical side of things, a power taking full power in a North African\/Middle Eastern country would be a step back in my opinion from the Arab Spring in which citizens pushed for a democratic government in many of these countries however it would not be the first time democracy hadn&#8217;t worked out in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to Article: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/30\/tunisias-president-saied-dissolves-parliament Tunisia\u2019s President Kais Saied has announced on state TV that he is dissolving the country\u2019s parliament, eight months after suspending it in a July power grab. He said on Wednesday that \u201cToday, at this historic moment, I announce the dissolution of the Assembly of Representatives of the people, to preserve the state and its institutions.\u201d He&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2022\/04\/04\/tunisias-president-dissolves-parliament-extending-power-grab\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5155,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}