Tunisian president dissolves supreme judicial council

Saied announced over the weekend he was dissolving the Supreme Judicial Council, one of the few remaining state bodies still able to act independently of him. The move capped months of sharp criticism of the country’s judiciary, which he has accused of corruption and of being infiltrated by his political enemies. “The president has moved to the stage of seizing institutions. What is happening is very dangerous and illegal,” said the Supreme Judicial Council head Youssef Bouzakher. Bouzacher told Al Jazeera that there were no legitimate legal or constitutional mechanisms to allow the president to dissolve the council. A judicial source also told Al Jazeera that the Tunisian police were preventing employees of the council from entering its headquarters.
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