Tunisia: Saied absent for days, opposition asks for news

Tunisian President Kais Saied has not appeared in public since last March 23, photographed as he left a mosque for the evening Ramadan prayer ritual. His absence is fueling worried voices on social media and the media about his state of health, in particular due to his hospitalization in the military hospital in the capital in recent days. And the opposition has also called for it. So far, no official response has come from the authorities to clarify the situation. Yesterday, the Minister of Health, Ali Mrabet, did not answer the direct question posed to him by a journalist from Radio Mosaique FM. The president of the National Health Front, the main opposition coalition, Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, asked the government today, on the occasion of a press conference, to provide clarifications regarding the state of health of the president. "We have been aware of the Head of State's illness since day one but we preferred to wait because our fight against him is political, but today when some media started to address the subject, we decided to talk about it," he said Chebbi, filmed by Mosaique FM.