The Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia, Marawan Al-Abbasi, expected that the inflation rate would rise to a new record level, reaching 11% during the year 2023, stressing that most of the economic indicators are negative, necessitating necessary reforms.

What are the reasons that exacerbated the economic crisis?

Is there any reason to link it to the obstruction of the political horizon in the country?

The economic crisis is getting worse, warning Tunisians of a harsher year that will burden their living conditions and their country's economy with a record rate higher than inflation.

This was confirmed by the governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia, stressing that the economic conditions in the country will be difficult if an agreement is not reached with the International Monetary Fund.

compound crisis

Returning to the roots of the crisis, writer and political analyst Mohamed Dhouib attributed the causes of the crisis in which Tunisia is living - in his interview with the "Beyond the News" program - to the remnants of the "black decade" that were heavy on Tunisians, in addition to the effects of the global crisis and the remnants of the Corona virus, as well as the Russia war. On Ukraine, and then the government of Naglaa Boden, which did not rise - as the guest said - to the level of the aspirations of the Tunisians, especially in the economic issues that it failed to solve.

And he considered that the crisis is also political and not only economic and social, stressing that the parties that ruled in the previous decade cannot find an appropriate solution to the crisis because it is part of the crisis, and this does not absolve the President of the Republic of his duty to dialogue with some parties that were not involved in that crisis. .

On the other hand, the Secretary-General of the Republican Party, Issam Chebbi, saw that Tunisia had reached the brink of economic collapse due to the “strange” administration of Qais Saeed, his weakening of state institutions, his inability to familiarize himself with the economic file, as well as his lack of any direction to revive the economy, and this is what made the country on the verge of bankruptcy.

He added that Tunisia has witnessed strikes in vital sectors, demanding that their owners improve their situation, at a time when Saeed is working to pin the political failure on his opponents and the previous regimes.

Political blockage

In what appeared to be an attempt to contain social tension, Tunisian Prime Minister Boden stressed, during her meeting with the Secretary-General of the Labor Union and the President of the Customs Union, the need to purify public climates and joint work to find appropriate solutions.

However, despite the local and international calls for dialogue, the political deadlock continues in the country, with opposition and trade union calls for protest movements in the near future.

In terms of numbers, the governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia expected that the economic conditions would be difficult if an agreement was not reached with the International Monetary Fund.

Pointing out that inflation will rise from 8.3% in 2022 to about 11% during the current year.

Between strictness and flexibility, statements are issued from time to time by President Saeed, who said that Tunisia can accommodate everyone, but on the other hand, he denied that there was a crisis, accusing the opposition of investing in talking about it, calling for the necessity of purging the state from those who he said had seized its capabilities, rejecting any threat to peace. civil and social in the country.

protest movements

In light of political and human rights criticism of the practices of the Tunisian authorities, opposition parties called for protest movements in the near future, including the National Salvation Front, whose president, Ahmed Najib Chebbi, announced the call to organize a demonstration on Habib Bourguiba Street in the center of the capital, in conjunction with the anniversary of the Tunisian revolution on January 14. .

As for the trade unionists in the country, trade unionists in the Tunisian General Labor Union - the largest trade union organization in Tunisia - confirmed that the organization is in the process of consulting to launch a rescue initiative in light of a stifling crisis in the country.

Leaders of the organization indicated during a regional council in the city of Kairouan that the union had started consultations with the Bar Association and the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights, noting that the aim was to reach the crystallization of an initiative that would lead the country out of its crisis through a clear road map.

Those leaders emphasized that the trade union organization will spare no effort in this direction and will present proposals and alternatives to rescue.