Tunisian judge investigating opposition leader over radio interview


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  • Thursday, 22 Sep 2022

FILE PHOTO: Secretary general of Attayar party, Ghazi Chaouachi, attends an interview with Reuters in Tunis, Tunisia September 23, 2021. REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui/File Photo

TUNIS (Reuters) - Ghazi Chaouachi, head of a Tunisian opposition party and prominent critic of President Kais Saied, will be questioned by a judge on Thursday over a radio interview accusing Saied of expanding his authoritarian tendency.

Chaouachi, a former government minister, said on local radio in May that Prime Minister Najla Bouden, whom Saied appointed in September‮ ‬2021, had resigned but that Saied had not accepted it.

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