Is Qais Saeed running Tunisia with the same mentality as Muammar Gaddafi?

According to academic and politician Jawhar Ben Mubarak, President Said is pushing Tunisia towards the unknown, and everyone acknowledges this, and he himself does not realize where he is taking the country, and that the solution to addressing the problems facing Tunisia at the level of democratic transition is not through monopolizing power and overthrowing democracy.

Bin Mubarak accused President Saeed of not being a statesman and having no conception, neither in the field of combating corruption nor on the economic level, with evidence that the state is unable to pay wages in the public sector, and all social indicators are in the red light, and the social movement has started in some popular neighborhoods Like Sidi Bouzid and Kasserine.

He likened Bin Mubarak - who was a guest on 12/21 (2021) episode of the "The Opposite Direction" program - to the late Libyan colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and that he used the same mentality, but with the difference that Gaddafi had the capabilities and economy of an oil country, while Tunisia does not possess these wealth, stressing that the Tunisian president does not address people's minds but rather their instincts, and uses all adjectives to describe his opponents, such as: traitors, viruses and the cursed, and even the administration said about her: "When you wander in the administration, you listen to the hiss of snakes."

Ben Mubarak spoke of the decline in Saied's popularity, based on sounding opinions issued by institutions loyal to or sympathetic to what he called the coup.

Last August, his popularity was very high, but it gradually decreased until it reached 58% during this month, and he said that the people exposed the president's deceptions, and even those who supported him in the first are retreating from his support.

The same speaker concluded that the lifespan of the "coup" has become very short, and that "a social defeat of the coup" occurred on the 17th of this month, the anniversary of the revolution that toppled the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2010, in addition to that Saied led Tunisia to international isolation, and that The statements of the European Parliament, the US Congress, the US administration, and the Group of Seven all called for the need to return to legitimacy and to a participatory path.

A new Tunisia and a third republic

Ahmed Hammami, the official spokesman for the "Alliance of the Liberals" supporting President Saeed, rejected what bin Mubarak said that the president had turned against the democratic path, and said that he had turned against corruption and spoilers and against the "corrupt" alliances that ruled during the past ten years, or what he called the "black decade". ".

Hammami stated that the president has clear visions of the economic program, and is gradually moving Tunisia towards a reform stage, towards a new Tunisia and a third republic in which justice is the basis of construction, not corruption. He said that he relies on competencies and calls in specialists every week to hear their opinions.

While he denied that there were thousands demonstrating against President Saied, the spokesperson for the "Alliance of the Liberals" challenged his colleague in the academic and political program, Ben Mubarak, that he and those opposing the president could gather a thousand people in the street outside the framework of the Ennahda party, which he said has the logistical capabilities. And the material, and he is the one who finances the buses that bring the paid protesters, according to what he said.

In response to a question about some saying that Said had become a puppet in the hands of the outside, the security and the army, Hammami refused that, and said that he swore to protect Tunisia until the last moment and he feared God.

On the other hand, the guests of the "The Opposite Direction" episode did not agree on Said's political experience.

Hammami said that former President Moncef Marzouki and former Prime Minister Ali Al-Arayedh did not have the experience when they took office, but Ben Mubarak confirmed the opposite and clarified that Marzouki, for example, was an opponent and a politician throughout his career, unlike the current president, who did not appear during the years of tyranny that Tunisia experienced in the past. He was not interested in political affairs.