{"id":204940,"date":"2025-08-18T21:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-authoritarian-spiral-tightens-four-years-after-the-coup\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:46:51","slug":"tunisias-authoritarian-spiral-tightens-four-years-after-the-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-authoritarian-spiral-tightens-four-years-after-the-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia&#8217;s Authoritarian Spiral Tightens, Four Years After the Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Four years have passed since the coup in Tunisia, in which President Kais Saied concentrated power in his hands and entrenched authoritarian rule.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Four years after Tunisian President Kais Saied&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/2021\/09\/27\/labor-union-political-parties-condemn-moves-by-tunisias-president-to-consolidate-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">power grab<\/a> &#8211; widely labeled a coup &#8211; the country finds itself in a deepening spiral of authoritarianism, economic turmoil, and social fragmentation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">On July 25, 2021, riding on a wave of public frustration over a decade of political deadlock and economic stagnation, <a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesdispatch.org\/2021\/07\/26\/tunisian-president-sacks-prime-minister-suspends-parliament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Saied suspended parliament<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508180014.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>Four years have passed since the coup in Tunisia, in which President Kais Saied concentrated power in his hands and entrenched authoritarian rule. Four years after Tunisian President Kais Saied&#8217;s power grab &#8211; widely labeled a coup &#8211; the country finds itself in a deepening spiral of authoritarianism, economic turmoil, and social fragmentation. On July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":204941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,8720,3835,257,254,24656,6846,653,6684,5114],"class_list":["post-204940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authoritarian","tag-coup","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spiral","tag-tightens","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204940","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=204940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}