TUNISIA’S GARMENT SECTOR RESILIENT DURING PRESIDENTIAL POWER GRAB
July 1st, 2021
Tunisia’s garment industry has declared that it is open for business despite the political upheaval instigated by the seizure of power and dismissal of parliament by the country’s President Kais Saied.
His move, which also involved him dismissing Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, followed often violent protests about government corruption and failures during the Covid-19 pandemic. Saeid announced during Sunday’s
25th July national independence day, on live television, that he was applying extraordinary measures and invoking Article 80 of the ...
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