{"id":115441,"date":"2021-02-28T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T02:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115441"},"modified":"2021-02-28T10:10:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T02:10:07","slug":"tunisias-islamist-party-organizes-demonstration-amid-tight-security-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115441","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia&#8217;s Islamist party organizes demonstration amid tight security measures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/africa\/2021-02\/28\/139772283_16144694597071n.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">A massive demonstration held in Tunis by the Islamist Ennahdha (Renaissance) party, the first majority party in the Tunisian parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TUNIS, Feb 28 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Amid tight security measures, a massive demonstration was organized on Saturday in Tunisian capital Tunis by the Islamist Ennahdha (Renaissance) party, the first majority party in the Tunisian parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thousands of Ennahdha supporters, coming from different provinces of the country, took part in the demonstration in downtown Tunis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protesters moved towards Habib Bourguiba Avenue, the main avenue of the Tunisian capital, described by the Tunisians as the avenue of the revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Ennahdha leader Rached Ghannouchi, the demonstration was placed under the sign of &#8220;national unity, respect for the constitution, political stability and dialogue.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a speech at Bourguiba Avenue, Ghannouchi said his country &#8220;needs reforms.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ennahdha leader hoped that &#8220;the next step will see the establishment of the Constitutional Court.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s noteworthy that Tunisia has known, for more than a month, one of the most serious political crises in its history following a constitutional conflict at the top of the executive power, between the head of government Hichem Mechichi and president Kais Saied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saied criticized the cabinet reshuffle proposed by Mechichi on Jan. 16. According to the president, some of the proposed names are involved in conflict of interest and corruption cases.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive demonstration held in Tunis by the Islamist Ennahdha (Renaissance) party, the first majority party in the Tunisian parliament TUNIS, Feb 28 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Amid tight security measures, a massive demonstration was organized on Saturday in Tunisian capital Tunis by the Islamist Ennahdha (Renaissance) party, the first majority party in the Tunisian parliament. Thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}