Tunisian President Saied's decision to freeze parliament and sack PM Mechichi was preceded by protests calling for the government to step down
The protests raised pressure on a fragile government that is enmeshed in a political struggle with President Kais Saied, as the government tries to avert a looming fiscal crisis amid a weeks-long spike in Covid-19 cases and increased death rates.
Last week, Mechichi sacked the health minister after chaotic scenes at walk-in vaccination centres during the Muslim Eid al Adha holiday, where large crowds queued for inadequate supplies of vaccine.After a year of wrangling with Mechichi and the leader of Ennahda, Rached Ghannouchi, who is also parliament speaker, Saied declared the army would take over the pandemic response.
Ennahda, banned before the revolution, has been the most consistently successful political party since then and a member of successive government coalitions. It has backed Mechichi, a political independent, in his disputes with the president.
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