Politics

Tunisia-Ennahdha: ” A parliament of minority… Saïed must resign ”

In October 18th, 2014: in the theater of Sidi Mansour, city in the suburb of Sfax, the second city of the country, more than 10 000 partisans of Ennahdha gathered for a big meeting of the Islamist party. Under a blazing sun, Rached Ghannouchi, president of the party, orchestrates an electoral meeting with presentations of both lists Ennahdha (Sfax1 and 2), talk about candidates and final speech of Ghannouchi. (Photo by Nicolas Fauqu??/Corbis via Getty Images)

Ennahdha called the president of the Republic, Kais Saïd, to resign to open the path for the people to organize an early presidential election, as an as a way out of fixing the crisis and as the last chance, before declaring bankruptcy and the fall, according to a statement of the party, made public this Tuesday, January 31, 2023.

Ennahdha denounced the overruns that accompanied the electoral process, revealed by civil society organizations, such as the rejection to share the number of voters and the participation rates, in the offices and voting centres by the ISIE, According to the same press release.

The movement believed that “the parliament of Kais Saïed only expresses the will of a minority of the people and that it does not have the right to exert legislative power, in its name or in the name of the majority of voters. Everything that will be produced by this Parliament is zero and has no legitimacy. It is better that he declares its dissolution as a radical solution, to save the country from chaos and the “desire for the power of the coup d’etat to opt for the policy of flight forward”, we read in the same press release.