Tunisia’s main opposition leader and speaker of the country’s suspended parliament has warned of a social situation there that “threatens to explode”.
Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Islamist Ennahda party, also accused Tunisia’s president of having mounted a coup.
Six months ago President Kaïs Saïed suspended parliament, assumed executive powers and moved to rewrite the constitution.
Since then, anger at economic conditions in Tunisia has sparked street protests, some involving clashes with the police. Earlier this week, the president’s chief of staff resigned.
President Saïed has said an election is due to be held in December to replace the nation’s suspended parliament.
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