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Tunisian parliament speaker defies president with planned sessions

FILE PHOTO: Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi, head of the moderate Islamist Ennahda, arrives at the party's headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia, July 29, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo

Tunisia's parliament will hold two full sessions this week, the speaker said on Monday, to consider revoking President Kais Saied moves toward a new constitution and one-man rule.

The sessions would be the first by the suspended chamber, since Saied seized most executive powers last July, and present the biggest direct challenge to the legitimacy of Saied's actions.

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