Tunisian president dissolves parliament

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has dissolved the country’s parliament.

Saied made the announcement after parliamentarians voted to repeal presidential decrees suspending their chamber.

The President denounced parliament’s move as a coup attempt and said those responsible had betrayed the nation.

Tunisia’s justice minister, Leila Jeffal, asked the attorney general to open a judicial investigation against members of a suspended parliament on charges of conspiring against state security.