Tunisian President Kais Saied renewed his call to fight monopolists and hitters, vowing to prosecute them legally, against the background of “they control the market and state policies”, as well as “abusing the power of Tunisians,” as he put it.
He also stressed that “there is no room for tolerance with criminals and vampires,” stressing that “they will pay dearly.”
Let it be war!
“The state will continue, and we will confront them with iron,” he said. “Let it be a war, and we will only be satisfied with victory.”
Said’s words came during his night visit to a steel factory in the Zaghouan governorate in the north-east of the country, where the authorities seized about 30,000 tons of iron that was stored for speculative purposes, according to a statement issued by the presidency on Sunday.
This comes amid increasing calls by parties and organizations for the Tunisian president to appoint a prime minister to succeed Hichem Al-Mechichi, the article, while the exceptional measures approved on July 25, entered their fifth week.
Saied had decided late last month to freeze the parliament’s work, strip its members of immunity, and dismiss the government, while he assumed the executive authority himself, in measures he confirmed at the time that they were necessary to save state institutions.
It is noteworthy that for many months, the country has lived through a complex political crisis between the Presidency of the Republic, the government and Parliament, especially the Ennahda Movement, which lined up behind the dismissed prime minister.
Rifi-JDD
