Tunisia (agencies)
Tunisian President Kais Saied refused any dialogue with those he described as “revolutionaries,” referring to the Brotherhood’s “Ennahda” movement, accusing it of trying to blow up the state from within. Al-Nahda” and the dissolved Parliament Speaker Rashid Ghannouchi and other deputies to be investigated for holding a virtual session of Parliament.
Tunisian President Kais Saied said yesterday, when receiving the Secretary-General of the Tunisian Labor Union Noureddine Taboubi and members of the executive office of the union at Carthage Palace: There is no dialogue with those who plundered the people’s resources or with those who wanted to overthrow the state and blow it up from within.
He added, “The dialogue will be based on the outcomes of the national consultation, a popular opinion poll,” and indicated that the meeting is evidence that solutions will not be unique to one party, but will be based on dialogue.
He continued, “It is not possible to have dialogue with those who plundered the people’s resources and continue to abuse them in their livelihood, or with those who wanted to overthrow the state and blow it up from within,” referring to the Brotherhood’s Ennahda movement and its allies.
Qais Saeed reiterated the “inevitable constants”, which are “the economic and social role of the state, because public utilities are not subject to profit and loss measures, and it is necessary to put an end to the networks of corruption that engulf them and the attempts of corrupters to strike them.”
In addition, the Tunisian President ruled out, during a meeting with Prime Minister Najla Boden, that Tunisia will witness legislative elections before the passage of 3 months.
In turn, the office of the dissolved Tunisian Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi said yesterday that the Terrorism Crime Investigation Unit had summoned him to appear before it, along with more than 30 deputies, on suspicion of conspiring against internal state security.
Maher Al-Madhoub, the former assistant president of the dissolved parliament, in charge of media and communication, said in a press statement that Ghannouchi received an invitation to appear before the investigation unit, accompanied by more than 30 deputies who participated in the virtual plenary session of the former deputies.
The Tunisian Minister of Justice, Leila Jaffal, had authorized the launch of the necessary judicial procedures against a number of deputies in the dissolved parliament for “crimes of forming a consensus with the intent of conspiring against the internal security of the state.”
This step came after about 120 deputies held a plenary session via video technology, during which they voted to cancel the orders and decrees approved by Tunisian President Kais Saied, despite the freezing of parliament’s activities.
Saied then dissolved the parliament, accusing the deputies who participated in the plenary session of attempting to overthrow it and threatening the security of the Tunisian state.
An electronic consultation showing the desire to change the political system to a presidential one
The results of the national electronic consultation conducted by Tunisian President Kais Saied showed that about 90% of the participants want to change the political system in the country to a presidential one.
The electronic consultation that Saeed announced at the end of 2021 was launched in January and ended on March 20, with 534,915 people participating out of a total of more than 7 million voters, according to official statistics. The results of the consultation showed that 86.4% of the participants wanted a presidential political system in the country instead of the parliamentary one approved by the 2014 constitution, and that 38% demanded an amendment to the constitution.
The Tunisian president confirmed that there had been more than 120,000 attacks from inside and outside the site designated for the consultation, stressing, “They attacked the consultation, but they did not succeed.”
Saeed announced at the end of the year 2021 a political roadmap that includes an electronic national consultation that includes questions related to the political system in the country and other topics including the economic and social situation.
A committee is expected to collect Tunisians’ proposals and prepare outlines for a referendum on the constitution on July 25th.
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