The draft of the new Tunisian constitution... a solution to the country's problems or a dedication to individual rule?

He added in his interview with the episode (1/07/2022) of the “Beyond the News” program that the draft establishes an absolute presidential rule that will take Tunisia from republican rule to monarchy, noting that the draft represents Qais Saeed and not the committee that worked on the constitution, as someone spoke of that Committee members.

Commenting on the draft published in the Tunisian Official Gazette, a member of the advisory body for preparing the new Tunisian constitution said that the published version did not match the draft prepared by the advisory committees.

Mukhtar al-Jamai stressed that the problem does not lie in the constitution and the type of government, but rather in the concentration of powers in the hands of the president, such as the article "Continuing the rule by decree until parliamentary elections are held."

Al-Jamai accused President Saeed of dishonesty towards the constitution he was defending in 2014, noting that the published draft adds a new crisis to multiple crises and will have serious repercussions on the country.

Tunisian President Kais Saied had issued a decision to publish the new draft constitution in the Official Gazette, in preparation for submitting it to a referendum soon.

On the other hand, Saied's opponents asserted that the contents of his draft constitution impose an absolute individual rule.

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Writer and political analyst Mohamed Dhouib believes that the draft constitution that was published sparked controversy in the street before it was put forward through the leaks that came out of the committee working on drafting it, but after its publication it proved that the constitution achieved many gains that put Tunisia in its civilized, Arab and Islamic framework.

He added that the talk about canceling the article of Islam as the state religion was just rumors because the published draft confirmed and stressed at the same time that Tunisia is part of the Islamic nation, stressing that the new constitution blocks the way for Parliament, which was far from people’s concerns and pain, and turned from a legislative council to a parliament To spread "chaos, insults and quarrels" among its members, he said.

He added that the concentration of power in the hands of the president would be better than its dispersal as it was in the past, and thus it would be easy to hold the negligent accountable, revealing that Kais Saied may leave power if the Tunisian people reject the new constitution.