Qalb Tounes party is witnessing a wave of resignations among its members, and uncertainty surrounds the future of this party, especially after the disappearance of its leader, Nabil Karoui, since the announcement of Kais Saied’s decisions on the night of July 25, 2021.
The beginning of the resignations was with the deputy head of Qalb Tounes party, Shiraz Chebbi, on August 2, 2021, who announced her resignation from the party and the parliamentary bloc, announcing her joining the popular movement, followed by the resignation of the party’s official spokesman, Sadiq Jabboun.
And yesterday, Thursday, August 19, 2021, frozen MP Jawhar Al-Mughairbi announced the suspension of his membership and activity in Qalb Tounes, due to personal circumstances, he said.
Al-Mughairbi had confirmed that “the bloc meets and issues statements, but it is in interruption with the party and its institutions that have been disrupted, due to the disruption of communication with Nabil Karoui,” stressing that it is abnormal, because Nabil Karoui is supposed to have an institutional role in determining the party’s political line and vision.
The deputy confirmed that the head of the bloc, Osama Al-Khulaifi, is also outside the country, specifically in France, for “family” reasons.
Opening an investigation against Qalb Tounes
Since mid-July 2021, the Public Prosecution Office has opened an investigation against the Heart of Tunisia party regarding the lobbying contracts related to obtaining foreign funds during the 2019 election campaign.
The official spokesman for the Judicial and Financial Pole and Mohsen Al-Dali’s deputy confirmed that the case dates back to October 2019 following a complaint filed by the Democratic Current Party and based on the Audit Department’s report issued in January 2021.
We note that research is still ongoing in this case regarding the source of these funds.
From the second party to the fourth
Qalb Tounes party, led by Nabil Karoui, the 2019 presidential candidate, won 38 seats in the recent legislative elections, ranking second after Ennahda, which won 52 seats.
However, the political barometer for the month of August, which was completed by the “Sigma Conseil” Foundation on voting intentions in the legislative elections, revealed that Qalb Tounes fell to the fourth place with a rate of 7.8 percent, and the Ennahda movement fell to the third degree by 10.9 percent, with the Free Constitutional Party ranked first with 30 8 percent compared to 20.1 percent of voting intentions for the “No-None” party, which the respondents called “the Qais Said party.”
As for voting intentions in the presidential elections, Nabil Karoui ranked the same as the party, which is the fourth, with Qais Saeed leading with 91.9 percent, followed by Abeer Moussa with 2 percent and Safi Saeed with 1.4 percent.
Will Qalb Tounes follow in the footsteps of the Nidaa Tounes movement, which won one seat in return for winning first place in the 2014 elections with 86 seats?
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