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Kais Saied

قيس سعيد
Head of state In government Independent Verified

President of Tunisia since 2019. Concentrated executive power through the July 2021 constitutional changes; runs the state largely without party mediation.

Country
Tunisia
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of state

Individual position

Scored from Kais Saied's own documents rather than inherited from a party — capturing where this figure diverges from the party line. Provisional, document-grounded estimate; see methodology.

Kais Saied's spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press
Kais Saied
Axis scores
Economic —
Social -5.0
State & religion -5.0
Liberal democracy -7.0
West alignment —
Regional stance —
Palestinian question +7.0
Civil liberties —
Regime stance —
Pan-Arab vs particularist —
Centralism vs federalism —
Traditionalism vs modernization —
Gender equality —
Iran posture —
Press freedom —

On the record

Quotes attributed to Kais Saied that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • It became necessary, out of our deep feeling of historic responsibility, to correct the direction of the revolution and even that of history itself.
    2022 Saied's signature framing in the 2022 Tunisian Constitution preamble — the claim to bypass intermediate institutional legitimacy and rule by direct mandate. hrw.org
  • Tunisia is in a state of war against itself — against thieves who looted its wealth.
    تونس في حالة حرب ضد نفسها، وضد لصوص نهبوا ثرواتها.
    2021 July 25, 2021 announcement freezing parliament and dismissing the prime minister under invocation of Article 80 emergency powers, the start of the post-2021 political reordering. en.wikipedia.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Kais Saied [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/saied
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Kais Saied." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/saied.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-saied,
  title     = {{Kais Saied}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/saied},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.