Saïed resurfaces after ten days of silence, with no explanation for his absence
President Kaïs Saïed's last known official activity was on July 8; after that Carthage received no one, announced no meetings and published nothing. In the gap, foreign outlets carried unconfirmed and mutually inconsistent claims about his health: Italy's Il Foglio wrote on July 17 of a heart attack and emergency admission to the Tunis military hospital, while others spoke of a stroke; the presidency has neither confirmed nor denied. He reappeared on the evening of Saturday, July 18, at Sonede's Ghdir El Golla water plant and then at Kalaât El Andalous, in a video released at around 2:30 a.m. That ten days of silence could open a succession debate at all is because the Constitutional Court, which the 2022 constitution designates to take over in a vacancy, has never been set up.