The President of the Republic, Kais Saied, called, yesterday, on banks and financial institutions to reduce, as much as possible, the interest rates in force in order to return part of them to the National Group.

During his meeting today with Mohamed Agrebi, head of the Tunisian Professional Association of Banks and Financial Institutions, who was accompanied by the association’s members Mouna Said and Hichem Rebai, Saied highlighted his appreciation for the patriotism of activists in the banking and financial institutions sector and called on them to make an extra effort in this exceptional period that the country is going through and to stand in the same The front is with the people.”

A statement issued by the Presidency of the Republic quoted Saied insisting  that “there is no room in Tunisia today for injustice, extortion or confiscation of funds,” and that rights are preserved within the framework of the law.