The President of the Republic, Kaïs Saïed, declared, this Thursday, during the Council of Ministers, that he will call upon Tunisians to vote in a referendum for the dialogue, which will be carried virtually.
Saïed confirmed that Tunisia had entered an era of modernity and technology, which enabled it to make use of new technologies, for some operations which call for the opinion of the citizen. Saïed announced that he had requested his Minister of Technologies to develop a digital platform for him that would allow Tunisians to express themselves, online, as part of a dialogue that he wanted virtual, and to carry out a referendum, by the same way.
Saïed assured that this platform would make it probable to assemble and list the results of these operations, in a more scientific and efficient way. Nevertheless, by opting for this method, Kaïs Saïed is starting on a slippery track, which will open before him all avenues of demonstration and attacks against the results that he will be able to announce.
He gives, in fact, in this way, a pretence to his detractors, who are diverse, to contradict the results of this “online consultation”, in the sense that he will be the single party who will organize this operation, which will secure the counting. , and who will profit from its results, without the slightest probability of control and verification of the results, by another party, or even by an independent body.
Furthermore, can Saïed be a thousand percent sure of the reliability of this method, given that remote votes have always been a source of contestation, and have easily been attacked by hackers of all sorts, and of all orientations, even in the most advanced countries in terms of digital technology!
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