‘Tunisian president plans to change political system, suspend constitution’
TAREK AMARA and ANGUS McDOWALL TUNISIAN President Kais Saied plans to suspend the constitution and may amend the political system via a referendum, one of his advisers has told Reuters in the first clear indication of his plans after moves his critics have called a coup. More than six weeks after Saied seized governing powers, dismissed the prime minister and suspended parliament on July 25, he has still not appointed a new government or made any broader declaration of his long-term intentions. "This system cannot continue ... changing the system means changing the constitution through a referendum, perhaps ... the…