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Tunisia’s new parliament, elected in December and January in a vote with ultra-low turnout of only 11%, will sit for the first time on Monday, President Kais Saied decreed on Thursday.

Tunisian President Kais Saied addressing the nation.

Tunisia’s new parliament, elected in December and January in a vote with ultra-low turnout of only 11%, will sit for the first time on Monday,Saied shut down the previous elected parliament in July 2021, moving to rule by decree in a move that opposition parties called a coup. He has said his actions were legal and needed to save Tunisia from years of crisis.

The new parliament, operating under a constitution that Saied wrote last year and passed in a referendum with turnout of 30%, will have very little power compared with the previous body it replaces. As most parties boycotted the election, and candidates were anyway listed on ballot papers without party affiliation. Most of the new parliament members are political independents.

Saied’s constitution also provided for a second parliamentary chamber, but he has not yet said how its members would be chosen or what responsibilities it would have.

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