Tunisia-Mohamed Abbou: Activation of Article 80 is not a coup d’etat

Speaking to Shems FM, Mohamed Abbou announced that the implementation of a constitutional text can in no way be described as a coup d’etat. He evoked that article 80 was the basis of several decisions taken under the presidency of Béji Caid Essebsi. Nevertheless, the suspension of the work of the parliament gives rise to specific legal questions, in particular in the absence of the Constitutional Court, he added,

He said People today speak of a coup d’etat because the Ennahdha Movement made sure to advertise the activation of article 80 of the constitution as such in order to avoid that its leaders implicated in corruption cases receive the sanction they deserve