Tunisia: Islam will not be state religion, says Saied

Tunisian President Kais Saied in Tunis, Tunisia on July 21, 2022 [Yassine Gaidi/Anadolu Agency]

Tunisian President Kais Saied said on Tuesday that Islam will not be the "state religion" in the new constitution, which he will present to a referendum on 25 July. "God willing, in the upcoming constitution for Tunisia, we will not talk about a state whose religion is Islam," Saied told reporters at Tunis-Carthage International Airport, "but rather we will talk about a nation whose religion is Islam, and the nation is different from the state." Saied received the new draft constitution on Monday that he is supposed to approve before the referendum. It will be held on the first anniversary of the president's decision to control all executive powers in Tunisia. In an interview with Agence France-Presse on 6 June, […] Source

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