UGTT trade union body has urged the country’s president, Kais Saied, to form a new government.
Recall that,the UGTT said late on Tuesday: “We call for speeding up the appointment of a head of government” and “a smaller and harmonious rescue government”
According to “the Guardian”,the president has dismissed accusations by the largest party in parliament that he staged a coup.
He insists that he acted under the constitution, which allows the head of state to take unspecified exceptional measures in the event of an “imminent threat”.
He later fired the defence, justice, economy and communications technology ministers, as well as top officials.
New economy and communications technology ministers were named on Monday
The Guardian explaibned that last month, the UGTT – which played a key role in the 2011 Arab spring uprising – said Saied had acted “in accordance” with the constitution to “prevent imminent danger and to restore the normal functioning” of the state.
While urging the speedy formation of a new government, the union body’s latest statement also said Saied’s “exceptional” measures were a response to the demands of the people.
It called them “a definitive solution to the complexity of the crisis the country is going through in the absence of any other solutions”.
According to the same source,the president’s move has lost him little popular support. But his main adversary, the Islamist-inspired Ennahda party, accuses him of staging a coup.
