The Assistant Secretary-General of the Tunisian General Labor Union, Sami Tahri, confirmed that the labor organization refuses to return to the stage before July 25 and calls for the need to end the exceptional situation.

“We refuse to go back to before 25 July and consider it necessary that the exceptional situation not continue,” he said in a statement to the Tunis Africa News Agency, stressing that the Labor Union calls for an end to the exceptional situation by moving to a permanent situation that preserves the stability of the country.

Tahri said that although ending the exceptional situation in which Chapter 80 of the Constitution was invoked has allowed freezing the work of Parliament, which the union considers a “burden”, measures must be taken to clarify the nature of the relationship with the House of Representatives.

He explained that the vision of the Labor Union is based on the formation of a national salvation government that would be miniature, noting that the next steps should determine whether there is a tendency to organize early elections or not.

Tahri also considers that it is possible to postpone consideration of the possibility of revising the constitution and determining the nature of the regime to a later stage, because addressing these issues in exceptional cases may have a negative result.

In another context, the Assistant Secretary-General of the Labor Union stated that the meetings of the Secretary-General of the Union, Noureddine Taboubi, during which he received a number of party leaders and heads of organizations, came within the framework of the dialogue on the general situation in the country.

He stressed that the Labor Union does not share the same point of view with the parties that wish to return the country to the system of government before July 25, but it listens to all opinions different from its assessment. He stated that a significant number of parties have modified their position towards demanding a road map that clarifies the nature and deadlines of the procedures for the coming period, as the labor organization had previously called for, indicating that the awareness of many parties and organizations of the national role of the union makes it a destination that embraces all points of view.

And he indicated that the Tunisian General Labor Union believes that the Ennahda movement and the parties close to it are required to carry out a radical and deep review of their relations with the Tunisian society and the state, especially since the Ennahda movement, which represented the main party represented by the government during the past ten years, did not undertake a radical review on whether it was a civil party or not.

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