![Tunisian security forces guard the entrance of the country's parliament, on October 10, 2021 [File: Fethi Belaid/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/000_9NW6ZL.jpg?resize=770%2C513)
Tunisian security forces guard the entrance of the country’s parliament, on October 10, 2021 [File: Fethi Belaid/AFP]
Tunisia’s parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi has declared the assembly in session, urging lawmakers to resume work, defying President Kais Saied’s suspension of the assembly in a new escalation of the country’s political crisis.
Ghannouchi’s declaration on Friday looks set to deepen a dispute over the legitimacy of Saied’s seizure of control of most legislative and executive powers in July, a move the president’s opponents called a coup.
Tunisia’s Ghannouchi says parliament in session, defying Saied | News | Al Jazeera
