TUNIS —
Tunisia’s main opposition alliance said
Wednesday its members including the once-powerful Ennahdha party would boycott
December polls to replace a parliament dissolved by President Kais Saied.
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The vote is set for nearly a year and a half after
Saied suspended the Ennahdha-dominated assembly and sacked the government,
later pushing through a constitution enshrining his one-man rule.
“The National Salvation Front has definitively
decided to boycott the upcoming elections,” said
Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, head of
the front which is made up of parties and movements opposed to Saied.
He said the move was in response to an electoral law
written “by Saied alone”, part of a “coup against constitutional legitimacy”.
Saied’s power grab was welcomed by many Tunisians
tired of what they saw as a fractious and corrupt system established after the
2011 revolution.
But opposition forces say his moves, culminating in
a new constitution confirmed by a widely boycotted July referendum, amount to a
return to autocracy in the only democracy to have emerged from the Arab Spring.
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