{"id":14795,"date":"2021-07-26T10:53:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T05:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=14795"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:53:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T05:23:06","slug":"tunisias-pm-sacked-for-mishandling-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=14795","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia\u2019s PM sacked for mishandling covid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tunisian President Kais Saied joined crowds in the capital Tunis late on Sunday night after he sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament. President Saied announced he would take charge with help from a new prime minister, saying he intended to bring calm to the country.<br \/>The opposition meanwhile stated that the President\u2019s move is a coup and asked the people to protest. However, the President said the constitution allowed him to suspend parliament if it is in &#8220;imminent danger&#8221;.<br \/>People across the country protested against the government\u2019s mishandling of Covid-19. Thousands of people had violently demonstrated against the ruling party in Tunis and other cities, shouting \u201cGet out!\u201d Thousands of people defied virus restrictions. Protesters stormed the offices of the Islamist governing Ennahdha party, smashing computers and setting fire to its local headquarters. Sunday\u2019s protests were the largest in months and the biggest to target Ennahda in years. Police also deployed around the parliament.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-14795' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=14795&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-14795' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-14795' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-14795' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-14795'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-14795' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-14795 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisian President Kais Saied joined crowds in the capital Tunis late on Sunday night after he sacked the prime minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-smartphones","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}