A serious political crisis has arisen in Tunisia, North Africa. The matter is so serious that the opposition is even calling it a ‘coup’. Tunisia’s president has fired the country’s prime minister and dissolved parliament. All this happened because people in Tunisia were angry with the government’s failure to deal with the corona epidemic and were demonstrating across the country. These protests had turned violent.
On Sunday, a large number of demonstrators took to the streets in almost every area of Tunisia and violent clashes with police broke out. The President says that he did this with the intention of bringing peace to the country and he will handle the situation with the help of the new Prime Minister. Kais Syed called an emergency security meeting and then came on TV to address the crowd. “We have taken this decision… until social peace is restored in Tunisia and until we save our country,” he said.
On Sunday night, when the news of the Prime Minister’s sacking came, the protesters started celebrating. Even President Kais Saied himself joined the celebration with the protesters in the capital Tunis. Before that, thousands of protesters had demonstrated against the ruling party in many other cities including the capital.
