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Tunisian authorities placed Abdel Karim Harouni, the senior official in the opposition Ennahda Islamist Party, under house arrest, the country's main opposition coalition said on Saturday. Harouni ...
Cash-strapped Tunisia wants to take the unprecedented step of borrowing billions from its central bank to address budget deficits and bandage its economic crisis, a step that experts warn could ...
Leading opposition parties in Tunisia asserted Wednesday that politically motivated arrests and gag orders are creating impossible conditions for holding democratic elections later this year.
Tunisia's public prosecutor on Tuesday detained Saadia Mosbah, a prominent activist and head of a nongovernmental group that defends the rights of migrants, human rights groups said, hours after ...
On 7 October, the ISIE announced the results, Kais Saied was re-elected president of Tunisia with 90.69% but on a turnout of 28.8%, the lowest since 2011, with Ayachi Zammel winning 7.3% and Zouhair Maghzaoui winning 1.9%. [110]
The unstable political and economic situation in Tunisia has raised concerns among neighboring countries, including Italy. [5] Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has warned that if Tunisia's political and economic situation does not stabilize, there might be a "migratory wave" towards Europe. The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has also ...
4 July – Opposition leader and founder of the Republican People's Union party Lotfi Mraïhi is arrested on suspicion of money laundering. [6]19 July: A court sentences Lotfi Mraïhi, a potential presidential candidate, to eight months in prison on a charge of vote buying, and also bans Mraïhi from running in presidential elections.
Tunisian legal scholars warned on Thursday that the legitimacy of next month's presidential election will be damaged if the electoral commission does not respect court decisions last week to ...