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Tunisian president appoints Garsalaoui to run Interior Ministry
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TUNIS, 30 July 2021, (TON): Tunisian President Kais Saied appointed Ridha Garsalaoui, a former national security adviser to the presidency, to run the Interior Ministry and pledged to protect rights and freedoms.
Saied invoked a national emergency to seize control of government, dismiss the prime minister and freeze parliament in moves his opponents called a coup.
Tunisians are awaiting the appointment of a new prime minister and the announcement of a road map to find a way out of the crisis.
Saied said "I tell you and the whole world that I am keen to implement the constitutional text and keen more than them on rights and freedoms."
He added "no one has been arrested. No one has been deprived of his rights, but the law is fully applied."
Supporters of Saied have cast his intervention as a welcome reset for the 2011 revolution after years of economic stagnation under a political class that has often appeared more interested in its own narrow advantage than in national gain.
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