{"id":183134,"date":"2024-10-23T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T10:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-president-inaugurated-for-second-term\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T12:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T10:40:17","slug":"tunisias-president-inaugurated-for-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-president-inaugurated-for-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia&#8217;s President Inaugurated for Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Tunisian President Kais Saied was inaugurated for a second term following a tumultuous first term in which he suspended parliament, jailed his critics and rewrote the country&#8217;s constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In his inaugural address Monday before parliament, Saied called for a &#8220;cultural revolution&#8221; designed to fight terrorism, reduce unemployment and erase corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">&#8220;The aim is to build a country where everyone can live in dignity,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Saied won a little more than 90% of the votes, but that triumph was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410230011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisian President Kais Saied was inaugurated for a second term following a tumultuous first term in which he suspended parliament, jailed his critics and rewrote the country&#8217;s constitution. In his inaugural address Monday before parliament, Saied called for a &#8220;cultural revolution&#8221; designed to fight terrorism, reduce unemployment and erase corruption. &#8220;The aim is to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":183135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660151:543629e7dbfbad0633d5a817ce798f4b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,6729,257,2450,254,7557,653,6684],"class_list":["post-183134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-inaugurated","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660151:543629e7dbfbad0633d5a817ce798f4b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}