The Secretary-General of the People’s Movement Zouheir Maghzaoui said in a statement to JDD Tunisie that the current plenary session was illegal as the Council’s office announced the place of it this morning, noting that a large number of deputies had not reached the media.
“These practices” attempt to “pass by force” from Parliament speaker Rached Ghannouchi and imposed the reality, adding that all the outputs of this session will not be legal.
He added that the position of the People’s Movement has been clear from the beginning by rejecting the Convention between Tunisia and Qatar on the establishment of the Qatari Development Fund in Tunis, saying it was put forward during the circumstance is not an impetus from Ghannouchi in the interest of Tunisia, but is a service to the benefit of Ennahda.
“This agreement is linked to the Movement of Ennahda during the post-Gulf reconciliation,” he said, adding that Ennahda was trying to present free gifts for Qatar at the expense of Tunisia’s interest as he explained.
Wide controversy
The plenary session of the People’s Congress in the presence of women, family, childhood and child-friendly delegation launched a three-hour delay due to the sit-in head of the Free Constitutional Party, Abir Moussi and its mass deputies.
It was decided to transfer the spound of the plenary meeting from the main hall to the sub-building (former councils council) due to the consolidation of the Free Constitutional Block and its deputies and their deputies and their claim to cancel the agreement to establish the Qatari Development Fund in Tunis from the plenary agenda.
The plenary agenda includes a draft law on domestic work and a fundamental law concerning approving the adjustment of the division of constituencies and determining the number of its seats as well as an essential draft law on approval agreement between the Government of the Republic of Tunisia and Qatar Development Fund on the opening of the Qatar Development for Fund in Tunis.
The sit-in of the free constitutional deputies were launched on Monday after the Board’s office and passed a basic bill number 05/2020 concerning the approval of an agreement between the Government of the Republic of Tunisia and the Qatar Development Fund and its presentation on the plenary meeting.
