TUNIS - Tunisia’s biggest political party rallied tens of thousands of supporters in the capital on Saturday in a show of strength that could fuel a dispute between the president and prime minister that has paralysed the government.
The dispute has brought to a head months of wrangling between the three men in Tunisia’s latest political crisis since a 2019 election delivered a fragmented parliament while propelling Saied, an independent, to the presidency. Mechichi then turned for support to the two biggest parties in parliament - Ennahda and jailed media mogul Nabil Karoui’s Heart of Tunisia.
Ennahda billed Saturday’s march as “in support of democracy”, but it was widely seen as an effort to mobilise popular backing against Saied - raising the spectre of competing protest movements that could lead to polarisation or violence.
Everyone seems to be in turmoil now, Lord have mercy on all of us.
This is a protest in a country, not in the case of Nigeria where protest is seen as an offense. Evil people leading the masses in Nigeria.
The Arab Spring will never die.
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