Tunisia's UGTT union to boycott president's political reform committee

FILE PHOTO: Tunisia's President Kais Saied gives a speech at the government's swearing-in ceremony at the Carthage Palace outside the capital Tunis, Tunisia February 27, 2020. Fethi Belaid/Pool via REUTERS//File Photo

Tunisia's powerful UGTT union will boycott an advisory committee being set up by President Kais Saied to discuss political and economic reforms, a union spokesman said.

Last week, Saied named a law professor to head the committee of legal and political science experts to draft a new constitution, excluding political parties from the process.

(Reporting by Tarek Amara; Editing by John Stonestreet and Edmund Blair)