{"id":231325,"date":"2022-07-14T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/tunisia-questions-and-answers-on-the-draft-constitution?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-07-14T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:46:11","slug":"tunisia-questions-and-answers-on-the-draft-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/tunisia-questions-and-answers-on-the-draft-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Questions and Answers on the Draft Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/60d80c333445d54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/60d80c333445d54\" alt=\"Human Rights Watch (HRW)\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/60d80c333445d54\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=208297&amp;press_source=Human Rights Watch (HRW)\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The draft constitution proposed by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/north-africa\/tunisia\">Tunisian<\/a>&nbsp;President Kais Saied enumerates many rights but eviscerates the checks and balances needed to protect them, Human Rights Watch said today in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2022\/07\/14\/qa-tunisias-constitutional-referendum\">question-and-answer document<\/a>&nbsp;about the draft. Saied unveiled the text of the draft constitution on June 30, 2022, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/fr\/politique\/tunisie-une-version-amend%C3%A9e-de-la-nouvelle-constitution-publi%C3%A9e-au-journal-officiel\/2633779\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">urged<\/a>&nbsp;Tunisians to approve it in a national referendum scheduled for July 25.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/09\/27\/joint-statement-tunisia-unprecedented-confiscation-power-presidency\">suspended<\/a>&nbsp;much of the current constitution in September 2021, two months after he seized extraordinary powers, suspended parliament, and lifted parliamentary immunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">&ldquo;It is not enough for a constitution to list human rights,&rdquo; said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/about\/people\/eric-goldstein\">Eric Goldstein,<\/a>&nbsp;deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. &ldquo;A constitution should create institutions and mechanisms to protect rights from being trampled, and that is what is dangerously missing in Saied&rsquo;s draft constitution for Tunisia.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Human Rights Watch (HRW).<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The draft constitution proposed by&nbsp;Tunisian&nbsp;President Kais Saied enumerates many rights but eviscerates the checks and balances needed to protect them, Human Rights Watch said today in a&nbsp;question-and-answer document&nbsp;about the draft. Saied unveiled the text of the draft constitution on June 30, 2022, and&nbsp;urged&nbsp;Tunisians to approve it in a national referendum scheduled for July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-231325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tunisia-questions-and-answers-on-the-draft-constitution.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}