Tunisian president declares transitional rules, new electoral law


FILE PHOTO: Tunisian President Kais Saied. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souiss

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian President Kais Saied said on Monday he had instituted transitional governing rules and would introduce a new electoral law, in a speech that came eight weeks after he seized executive power in a move his foes called a coup.

Addressing supporters in Sidi Bouzid, the crucible of Tunisia's 2011 revolution that brought democracy and triggered the "Arab spring", Saied also spoke against what he called strife and sedition days after the first protest against him.

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