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Tunisia – PDL warns of any attempt to exclude Abir Moussi from elections

The Free Destourian Party condemned “the insults, abuses, and attacks on its physical integrity and the violation of its human dignity…” to which its leader, Abir Moussi, was subjected during her transfer from her imprisonment center to court in conditions incompatible with her state of health, which caused her distress.”

It also denounced, in a statement, what it described as “a systematic policy aimed at exhausting her health and attempting to undermine her morale and punish her for her political positions”, attributing legal accountability to “those who hold all the cogs of the state”, holding them responsible for any harm caused to the party president during the period of her arrest and demanding her immediate release.

The PDL cautioned against “any attempt to exclude its candidate from the presidential elections” and warned of the danger “of employing the judicial establishment to deprive her of her civil and political rights”.

The party affirmed that it “will not recognize the legitimacy of the elections in which Abir Moussi is deprived of her right to participate as well as large popular groups of their right to choose who represents them in government through elections consistent with international standards”, voicing it willingness to engage in all forms of peaceful and legitimate struggle to put an end to the bleeding “of the serious injustices and abuses committed against him”.