Tunisian president sacks prime minister, freezes parliament

[Disir]

Tunisia's president dismissed the government and froze parliament on Sunday, prompting crowds to fill the capital in support of a move that dramatically escalated a political crisis, but that his opponents called a coup.

President Kais Saied said he would assume executive authority with the assistance of a new prime minister, in the biggest challenge yet to a 2014 democratic constitution that split powers between president, prime minister and parliament.

Crowds of people quickly flooded the capital's streets, cheering and honking car horns in scenes that recalled the 2011 revolution that brought democracy and triggered the Arab spring protests that convulsed the Middle East.

Tunisian president ousts government in move critics call a coup

Tunisia's president dismissed the government and froze parliament on Sunday in a dramatic escalation of a political crisis that his opponents labelled a coup, calling their own supporters to come onto the streets in protest.

www.reuters.com

This is going to spiral out of control real quick. It's going to get ugly.

 

[JGalt]

Tunisia's president dismissed the government and froze parliament on Sunday, prompting crowds to fill the capital in support of a move that dramatically escalated a political crisis, but that his opponents called a coup.

President Kais Saied said he would assume executive authority with the assistance of a new prime minister, in the biggest challenge yet to a 2014 democratic constitution that split powers between president, prime minister and parliament.

Crowds of people quickly flooded the capital's streets, cheering and honking car horns in scenes that recalled the 2011 revolution that brought democracy and triggered the Arab spring protests that convulsed the Middle East.

Tunisian president ousts government in move critics call a coup

Tunisia's president dismissed the government and froze parliament on Sunday in a dramatic escalation of a political crisis that his opponents labelled a coup, calling their own supporters to come onto the streets in protest.

www.reuters.com

This is going to spiral out of control real quick. It's going to get ugly.

Democracy breaking out in a Middle Eastern country?

Don't worry, Biden's CIA will put that down with a couple well-placed bombs and a few political assassinations.

 

[Disir]

Democracy breaking out in a Middle Eastern country?

Don't worry, Biden's CIA will put that down with a couple well-placed bombs and a few political assassinations.

Yep. It'll never happen. Never let a regime change go to waste.