Tunisia president indicates plans to amend constitution

Kais Saied says 2014 charter is ‘not eternal’ and can be amended within existing constitutional means.

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has indicated plans to change the country’s constitution, seven weeks after he seized power in moves his opponents called a coup. The comments on Saturday represented Saied’s clearest statement yet about what he intends to do next, having sworn there was “no going back” to the situation in the North African nation before his intervention on July 25. Speaking live on television in a central Tunis boulevard, Saied said he respected the 2014 democratic constitution but that it was not eternal and could be amended.