Tunisia-[Audio]Ahmed Nejib Chebbi : railway wage crisis threatens to affect other sectors

Amal Party leader Ahmed Nejib Chebbi related that economic data confirms that the state is having vast difficulty in paying employee salaries. In a statement to Tunisie Numerique today, on Sunday, Chebbi revealed that public sector institutions are “severely in deficit,” and the recent delay in paying railway workers’ salaries confirms that many institutions are imperilled by the same crisis.

Believing that this is a  worsening crisis. . Our Speaker further indicated that the State has begun to disburse its savings to the Central Bank to cover wages.

“The situation is obscure and the nation is heading towards a more complex crisis because it is confronting the threat of unemployment, rising prices and poverty”, he said.

Chebbi deemed that the civil and national political forces need to rise to the challenge and gather their words to give a vision and a way out of the crisis. He likewise considered that the President of the Republic, Kais Saied is the source of the crisis and does not desire to be part of the solution, because he proceeds to monopolize his opinion and to take illegitimate and illegal decisions. Consequently, we have to prevent it and deal with what is occurring and “it takes boldness” according to Chebbi. “It is the Tunisians who will pay the price for the coup,” he concluded.