Tunisians started voting Monday on a brand new structure that might grant President Kais Saied vital powers, a transfer that the political opposition and activists say pushes the North African nation toward one-man rule a decade after it emerged from the Arab Spring as the one democracy within the area.
Mr. Saied introduced a draft model of a brand new structure in late June. If adopted, it might grant the president the power to increase his tenure past the present restrict of two presidential phrases. It could additionally improve the powers of the presidency and curtail these of the parliament, which, below the prevailing structure, test the manager’s attain.
