A coup in Tunisia? Debunking a suspicious letter
Middle East Eye published an article entitled: Top secret Tunisian presidential document outlines plan for 'constitutional dictatorship' by David Hearst and Areeb Ullah. The leaked document, supposedly compiled by Kais Saied's top advisers, urges the president to take control of the country. "On Sunday night, many political and civil society observers expressed doubts about the authenticity of the document. Journalists and politicians close to or affiliated with the Islamist trend, however, seized on the article as evidence of the fears they were expressing concerning Kais Said's authoritarian temptation, mobilizing the trauma of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sissi's coup in July 2013.
