Tunisia-Mustapha Ben Jaâfar warns against public anger

Former president of the National Constituent Assembly, Mustapha Ben Jaâfar, alerted of the economic and social situation and has, in this sense, warned against public anger in Tunisia.

“President Kais Saied has selected the way of the unique opinion to pen and adopt the constitution of the New Republic, despite all the calls to open the door to dialogue and participation to the legal text (…) The low participation in the referendum is primarily the outcome of what the nation has suffered for years in terms of degrading political and partisan life, which has led to the estrangement of public affairs citizens and their Interiorization of a negative image of political action that puts everyone in the same basket (…).

”Personally, the complete cancellation of chapter 7 of the 2014 Constitution and the decentralization system, which represents an essential pillar of direct democracy, astonished me (…) decentralization surely represents the best solution to reach a major goal of the revolution, which is global development, fair sharing of wealth and elimination of inequalities between regions (…) despite the uncertainty that reigns on the political scene, where the President of the Republic has not yet transmitted the required details (…) the degradation of the purchasing power of the citizen, the shortage of multiple basic products, and the pressures exercised by the donors on the government, are the most illustrative proof of The deep and complexity of the crisis in the country … “he wrote.