{"id":89327,"date":"2022-07-26T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T07:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/tunisia-questions-and-answers-on-the-draft-constitution-2\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T07:30:06","slug":"tunisia-questions-and-answers-on-the-draft-constitution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/tunisia-questions-and-answers-on-the-draft-constitution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Questions and Answers on the Draft Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The draft constitution proposed by\u00a0Tunisian<\/a>\u00a0President Kais Saied enumerates many rights but eviscerates the checks and balances needed to protect them, Human Rights Watch said today in a\u00a0question-and-answer document<\/a>\u00a0about the draft. Saied unveiled the text of the draft constitution on June 30, 2022, and\u00a0urged<\/a>\u00a0Tunisians to approve it in a national referendum scheduled for July 25.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The draft gives far more power to the presidency than the current constitution, which provides for a hybrid presidential-parliamentary system, stronger protections for judicial independence, and other provisions that would check executive powers. President Saied\u00a0suspended<\/a>\u00a0much of the current constitution in September 2021, two months after he seized extraordinary powers, suspended parliament, and lifted parliamentary immunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not enough for a constitution to list human rights,\u201d said\u00a0Eric Goldstein,<\/a>\u00a0deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cA constitution should create institutions and mechanisms to protect rights from being trampled, and that is what is dangerously missing in Saied\u2019s draft constitution for Tunisia.\u201d<\/p>\n

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