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Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has told The New Arab’s sister service Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that he intends to return to the country despite being handed a four-year prison sentence in absentia last week. Speaking from Paris, Marzouki said that he would “wait for advice from leaders in the field” before returning to Tunisia “so that my return will be a substantial addition to ending the coup”. On 25 July, current Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked the country’s prime minister and suspended parliament in what Marzouki and many other politicians have described as a “coup”. Marzouki, wh…