Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi, spoke on Monday, August 1 with Al-Quds Al-Arabi and returned to the events of July 25, 2021, revealing that “Tunisians missed, on that day, the “opportunity to end the coup d’etat undertaken by Kais Saied”. “The Nahdhawis missed the opportunity to put an end the putsch as the Turks did in the coup attempt against Recep Erdogan in 2016,” he said.
“We assembled in front of Parliament on the night of July 25 to 26, 2021, though only a few hundred people were able to join us (…) during this time more than 150 premises belonging to Ennahdha had then been burned down and the Nahdhaouis were occupied putting down the fires,” he said.
“To those who were able to join us later, I notified them that they had missed the opportunity to stifle the putsch like the Turks in 2016,” he added. Rached Ghannouchi remembers that on July 25, 2021 Ennahdha was almost isolated but had “at its side” the Workers’ Party, which dared from the first moments to qualify the measures announced by Kais Saied as a coup d’etat.
“But today, it is Kais Saied who is isolated when three-quarters of the Tunisian people did not reply to his call by voting in the referendum, not to cite the most important parties, who all took a position refusing the referendum and the new constitution,” he said. He further clarifies that “on July 25, 2021, Kais Said’s popularity reached 90%… Today, it has dropped to around 20% in just one year. The reason is that he has done nothing in this year other than tearing down the institutions of the state.”
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