Street clashes erupt outside Tunisia's army-barricaded parliament as President Saied fires prime minister and suspends legislature, plunging the young democracy into a constitutional crisis
— a decade on from Tunisia's 2011 revolution, often held up as the Arab Spring's sole success story — comes even though the constitution enshrines a parliamentary democracy and largely limits presidential powers to security and diplomacy.
"I have taken the necessary decisions to save Tunisia, the state and the Tunisian people," Saied declared in a statement on Sunday, a day that had seen Covid street protests flare in multiple cities. "We are also capable of organising large demonstrations to show the number of Tunisians who are opposed to these decisions," this official said.
Tunisia has recently been overwhelmed by Covid-19 cases which have raised the death toll to more than 18,000.
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