Tunisian president Kais Saied ordered Europe's top trade union official to leave the country after she addressed protesters at a demonstration organized by the North African country's influential labor union.
Authorities in Tunis accused Esther Lynch, the Irish general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, of making statements that “interfered with Tunisian internal affairs” during a protest against the country's increasingly authoritarian president in the port city of Sfax on Saturday.
She called on the Tunisian government to negotiate with the UGTT leadership and help improve the economy that has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy amid political instability that deepened after a disastrous parliamentary election last month in which only 11% of voters cast their ballots.
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