Tunisia-Rached Ghannouchi: The appointment of Gharyani is part of the continuity of the state

In an exclusive interview broadcasted on Al Araby TV, House speaker and Ennahda party leader Rached Ghnnouchi affirmed that the appointment of the former leader of the dissolved RCD, Mohamed Gharyani to the post of “consultant in charge of conciliation to the presidency of the parliament, is part of the continuity of the State.

Ghannouchi estimated that the past must not be wiped out and view as enemies all the politicians who worked under the Bourguiba and Ben Ali regimes, considering that the sentence should be individual and not collective.

The Ennahdha parliamentary bloc blocked the passage of a law that criminalizes all those who belonged to the ruling party during the pre-revolutionary period, he evoked .

He added that some comparative experiments have decayed to establish true democracy because of the isolation of people who have worked in the past under toppled regimes. Ghannouchi said it is not revenge or vendetta, relating to this effect of the law on transitional justice which essentially aims to prevent this from happening again.