Tunisian newspaper Al-Shorouk on Thursday quoted unnamed sources as saying that President Kais Saied will announce on Friday the formation of the new government.
The newspaper said that the sources, which described it as identical, informed her that Said will announce on Friday “the composition of the government, and names Tawfik Charfeddine, head of government, as part of an official letter in which he returns to the presidential order issued, Wednesday.”
Most ministers will change, the paper’s sources said.
Tunisian President Said’s decisions, which abolished full doors in the country’s constitution and granted himself broad powers, in which he acknowledged the continued freezing of parliament, the stripping of immunity from its members and the suspension of their grants and privileges, have divided the political arena between a supporter and a supporter who believes it will end the chaos and fragmentation between the institutions of government, and rejects it as devoting absolute unilateralism to power, at a time when several parties have announced the formation of a front to isolate the president.
The reactions of national political and social components and legal experts were inconsistent between strong rejection, the description of a “constitutional coup”, the “abolition of the republican system”, concern about “a return to an absolute individual system of government” and full support, and the president’s decisions as “a way to correct the course of the revolution.
In this context, Ennahda considered that President Said’s determination to proceed with extraordinary measures threatens to “dismantle the state” and further exacerbates the economic and social crisis, warning that “the adoption of unilateral transitional provisions” represents a “determination to abolish the constitution”, which it does not agree with.
Her ally in parliament, The Heart of Tunisia, spun along the lines, saying said Said’s actions constituted “a serious violation of the constitution and constitute a coup against legitimacy and the establishment of a new dictatorship.”
The Democratic Movement Party, Afac Tunisia, the bloc’s party and the Republican Party, declared that the new resolutions announced by President Said represented “a departure from legitimacy and a coup against the constitution”, while at the same time expressing its refusal to return to the corruption and chaos that characterized the pre-July 25th.
“The President of the Republic is not legitimate by departing from the constitution and that everything built on this basis is invalid and does not represent the Tunisian state, its people and institutions,” they said in a joint statement on Thursday, blaming him for all possible repercussions of this “dangerous step”, and said that it rejects the president’s “exploitation of extraordinary measures to impose his individual political choices as a fait accompli at the expense of real priorities, notably resistance to corruption and facing social, economic, financial and health challenges.”
The position of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), the country’s largest trade union organization, began to be sharper this time, and for the first time he announced his opposition to the decisions of President Qais Said, where he expressed his displeasure with Said’s recent decisions and denounced his call for absolute individual rule.
On the other hand, several political parties declared their understanding of President Said’s new actions, considering the deteriorating situation that the country became, after 10 years of revolution, as an expression of the will of the people, and an important step towards building a new Tunisia and correcting the revolutionary path.
In this context, the Popular Movement party stressed the need to change the political system of cutting with chaos and duplication of executive power and change the electoral law and all legislation related to political life so that the social majority stakeholder in change can reach power and prevent the system of looting and employment from changing its face and bringing the ball back to the Tunisian people.
The leaders of the People’s Movement considered that Said’s decisions came to save the country, and declared that they are against the return of parliament, which was in the service of the mafia and corrupt, calling on the president to set the deadlines for the special period and schedule the upcoming electoral stations.
Legally, constitutional law professor Amin Mahfoudh said, “The President of the Republic under his presidential order yesterday pledged to establish the state of law and institutions, which the merchants of religion and opportunists of democracy have failed to achieve.”
Mahfouz explained, in a blog post posted on his Facebook account, that “Chapter 22 stipulates that the President of the Republic shall prepare draft amendments related to political reforms using a committee organized by presidential order, with the need for the draft amendments to aim at establishing a real democratic system in which the people are already sovereign and the source of powers and exercised by elected deputies or through a referendum. “It is based on the separation of power and the actual balance between them, enshrines the rule of law and guarantees public and individual rights and freedoms and achieves the objectives of the December 17, 2010 revolution in employment, freedom and national dignity, and is submitted by the President of the Republic to the referendum for ratification.”
Meanwhile, four parties, namely the Popular Republican Union(CHU), The Will Movement of Tunisia, the Popular Will Party and wafa movement, announced the formation of a “front”, to counter what they described as the “coup d’état” and to defend “the will and supreme interests of the Tunisian people, public freedoms, the constitution and the rule of law,” and said that “removing the president has become a duty”.
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