President Kais Saied fires ministers, suspends parliament

By Monday morning, troops had surrounded Tunisia’s parliament and governmental palace. Outdoors parliament, the physique’s speaker, Rachid Ghannouchi, waited for hours in his automobile after troops stopped him from getting into the constructing. Ghannouchi, who belongs to the reasonable Islamist Ennahda occasion, is amongst these describing the president’s transfer as an influence seize.