{"id":24080,"date":"2022-07-05T10:27:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T10:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=24080"},"modified":"2022-07-05T10:27:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T10:27:33","slug":"tunisian-parties-call-for-referendum-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/07\/05\/tunisian-parties-call-for-referendum-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian parties call for referendum boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\".2e5cu546dd6.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-62c40c319db6d5693fa5839e.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">Two political parties in Tunisia have called for a boycott of this month&#8217;s referendum on a new constitution.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".2e5cu546dd6.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-62c40c319db6d5693fa5839e.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">The recently formed Work and Achievement party said President Kais Saied\u2019s draft constitution \u201cseeks to entrench individual rule\u201d and threatens the independence of the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".2e5cu546dd6.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-62c40c319db6d5693fa5839e.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">The secular Democratic Current party was also highly critical saying that it \u201cthreatens the existence of the state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".2e5cu546dd6.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-62c40c319db6d5693fa5839e.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">Speaking earlier President Saied denied that the his proposed constitution would restore authoritarian rule, insisting instead that it would guarantee citizens rights and freedoms.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".2e5cu546dd6.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-62c40c319db6d5693fa5839e.0.6.0.0:$post_5\">Tunisia\u2019s referendum is due to take place on 25 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two political parties in Tunisia have called for a boycott of this month&#8217;s referendum on a new constitution. The recently formed Work and Achievement party said President Kais Saied\u2019s draft constitution \u201cseeks to entrench individual rule\u201d and threatens the independence of the judiciary. The secular Democratic Current party was also highly critical saying that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11555,913,8601,5406,5205,3805,7400,6433,10415],"class_list":["post-24080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-citizens","tag-democratic","tag-independence","tag-judiciary","tag-july","tag-president","tag-referendum","tag-tunisia","tag-work"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}