Tunisian Parliament Speaker Rashid Ghannouchi said that the people refused to be led by calls to dissolve parliament and change the country, in response to calls for demonstrations and sit-ins on Sunday (June 14th) that did not receive a wide response in the street.

At the opening of a plenary session of Parliament on Tuesday, Ghannouchi denounced the campaign he described as "chaos" against the parliament and its members by "those who oppose revolution and democracy in Tunisia."

He believed that this campaign "culminated in the call for regime change and the dissolution of parliament and described the council in various forms, in stray attempts to strain relations between public authorities."

He said in his speech that "the Tunisians adhered to the revolution and the institutions of the Republic, including the parliament, despite the shaking of their confidence in it," as he put it.

He added that "the people were clear in rejecting the drive behind the calls for chaos and aggravation issued by parties that do not recognize democracy and do not believe in it."

Dozens of demonstrators gathered in the vicinity of Parliament on Sunday to call for the dissolution of Parliament (Al-Jazeera)

Only dozens participated in those protests called by the National Salvation Front and political activists calling for the parliament to be dissolved and early elections to be held.

The demonstrators gathered on Sunday near the vicinity of the parliament headquarters in the Bardo region, raising slogans against the Renaissance movement and others calling for a change of the political system.

A spokesman for the so-called "June 14 Movement" (June) accused Fathi al-Warfalli, al-Nahda, and Prime Minister Elias al-Fakhakh, of obstructing protests by using security and blocking roads leading to Bardo Square, where the parliament is located.

In an interview with Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Warfalli rejected the accusations directed at the movement, seeking to sow chaos to serve foreign agendas and funding from countries hostile to the Arab revolutions, stressing that their mobility is automatic and stems from "their jealousy over the country and a high patriotic sense", as he put it, vowing the head of state and prime minister to escalate through the invitation For civil disobedience.