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Tunisian opposition to boycott December elections, decry ‘coup’

Demonstrators hold placards and Tunisian national flags during a protest against Tunisian President Kais Saied [File: Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters]

The National Salvation Front, a body representing the main parties in Tunisia’s opposition, including Ennahdha, has announced that it will boycott December elections to replace a parliament dissolved by President Kais Saied.

Saied called the December vote after he suspended the Ennahdha-dominated assembly and dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi in July 2021, before later pushing through a new constitution that critics say enshrines one-man rule.

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