Today, no one can speculate on the possibility of the return of the activity of the House of Representatives or its composition after the end of the extendable month period decided by the President of the Republic to freeze all the powers of the House of Representatives and lift the immunity of all its deputies on July 25, 2021. It is worth saying that this immunity has always represented the biggest obstacle to holding MPs and parties implicated in charges, violations or cases responsible, which encouraged them to further attack the law and institutions.

In fact, the current political scene is very vague and ambiguous and has become open to many interpretations because the President of the Republic has not announced a vision, plan, or roadmap that enables analysis and understanding of what is happening and what will happen next.

The question is, will the President of the Republic extend the exceptional measures that he announced, according to which he froze the powers of Parliament and lifted the immunity of MPs? No one, not even jurists and specialists in constitutional law, can answer this question. Assuming that Parliament resumed its activities, what would the next parliamentary scene be like?

What increases the ambiguity of the scene is the escalation of calls from here and there for the dissolution of Parliament and the holding of premature legislative elections. Although this is not constitutionally and legally possible, a significant segment of Tunisians rejects the return of this parliament to work with the same structure that was before July 25, with most of the faces it includes, with its divisions and maneuvers that often disrupted its functioning, and with its battles and quarrels that rejected the parliamentary work and marketed to Tunisians and to the world a miserable and scandalous image since it has become a circus in which all forms of violations, sterile arguments, exchanges of accusations, and verbal and physical violence revolve. It is, in fact, a parliament that did not make defending the interests of Tunisia and Tunisians a priority.

This image that has been entrenched in the conscience of Tunisians cannot be easily erased, and such a parliament cannot gain confidence again without conditions such as changing this scene and purifying it from the faces of corruption and everyone who took his presence under the parliament’s dome as a means to achieve private goals and serve narrow personal interests.

Here, the law must be applied to everyone without exception, whether they are individuals or parties. On the other hand, the situation also requires the necessity of applying the provisions of the electoral law and conducting judicial follow-up on the outputs of the Court of Accounts reports.

These reports on the lists and parties that have been proven to have violated the electoral law and have committed many breaches and abuses that amount to electoral crimes remained ink on paper and did not find their way to implementation, follow-up and accountability, which requires the implementation of the penalties established by the electoral law, and stipulates the necessity of removing the status of MP from dozens of deputies. This in itself is an important step that will change the shape and composition of Parliament and will provide a lesson for those who will run in the future to be a representative of the people without having real intentions to serve this people.

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