Tunisia's President Kais Saied gives a speech at the government's swearing-in ceremony at the Carthage Palace outside the capital Tunis, Tunisia February 27, 2020. Fethi Belaid/Pool via REUTERS//File PhotoTUNIS, May 9 (Reuters) - Tunisian President Kais Saied on Monday appointed new members of the election commission, to be headed by Farouk Bouasker, the official gazette said, entrenching his one-man rule and casting doubt on electoral integrity. Saied said last month he would replace most election commission members, seizing control of one of the last independent bodies in the North Africa country. Bouasker, head of the new election commission, served as vice president of the previous electoral body. In recent months Saied has reiterated that the commission is not independent, even though he won the presidential elections in 2019 under its supervision.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 10, 2022 00:37 UTC