The invitation of 5 Tunisian parties to hold a "National Salvation Conference" aimed at getting out of the current political crisis raised more than one question between a team that considered it an opportunity to bridge the national ranks and those who described it as a veiled call for a coup against electoral legitimacy.

Political figures such as Mohamed Naguib Chebbi, head of the "democratic movement", Mohsen Marzouq launched from the "Tunis Project", Salma El-Loumi from the "Hope" party, Said El-Aydi for "Bani Watani", and Yassine Ibrahim on "Tunisian Horizons"; In consultations with national organizations, most notably the Tunisian General Labor Union (the largest trade union organization) to hold a national rescue conference.

A Tunisian incision finds that this call by personalities who appealed the results of the recent elections has no legitimacy after its failure to gain the confidence of Tunisian voters through the ballot box, while others support this step in light of the stifling political and economic crisis and a climate of tension and congestion.

Towards the Third Republic

Mohsen Marzouk, head of the "Tunis Project", called in a press interview, the ruling parties and national organizations to draw lessons and lessons from what happened in 2013, and to engage in a national rescue initiative to contain the political crisis and maintain civil peace in the country.

Previously, 4 national organizations (the Labor Union, the Trade and Industry Confederation, the Bar Association and the Human Rights Association) succeeded in avoiding the country sliding into the chaos scenario, after sponsoring in 2013 a national dialogue between the transitional government and the opposition parties, after a series of political assassinations that rocked the country.

Marzouq considered that the time has come to pass towards the third republic and break with the current republic, to go "in a radical way" towards changing the political system, revising the electoral law, and establishing the constitutional court.

Cut the road to chaos

The head of the "democratic movement" Ahmed Naguib al-Shabi said that the current political and economic crisis that the country is going through, the disintegration of the government coalition, and the conflict between the institution of the presidency and parliament, are warning of the weakness of the state and require a firm stand by the jealous of this country, as he put it.

In a statement to Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Shabi denied that the call to hold the rescue conference was a coup against legitimacy and the elected state institutions, stressing that it is a step to block the calls for chaos and undermine the elected institutions in light of its confusing political performance.

Regarding the criticism of the party leaders calling for this conference and marking it as "carrying no political weight or popular balance" after its failure in the recent elections, Al-Shabibi considered that such descriptions are outside the culture of democracy.

On the other hand, he stressed the right of any person, regardless of his character, to participate in public life and present initiatives to save the country. He added, "I am not an ungrateful person, and I have a past, a political present and a struggle that makes me move out of responsibility."

And he concluded - at the conclusion of his speech - that there are serious consultations between these figures to form a new political party that will see the light soon and bring together the progressive and democratic forces.

Respecting the results of the fund

For his part, the leader of the Ennahda movement, Khalil Al Baroumi, recognized the right of each party to present an initiative according to what democracy and the climate of freedoms guarantee for it in the country, but he stressed in return that these parties should respect what the results of the fund yielded.

In a statement to Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Baroumi added, "Whoever has not succeeded in gaining the confidence of the Tunisians through the ballot box, he will not be able to obtain this confidence by adopting illegal and unconstitutional methods."

He regretted the exploitation of some of these parties as signs of political or governmental crises, to impose initiatives on the face of it as an invitation to dialogue, and within it, calls for a coup against electoral legitimacy.

The leader in Al-Nahda was surprised at what he described as a "conflict of political positions" issued by the head of the "Tunis Project", Mohsen Marzouk, during his participation in the government coalition and after his withdrawal from it.

Repositioning

In this regard, political analyst Tariq Al-Kahlawi considered the calls of the five parties as part of a plan to relocate in the political arena and save their leaders, after the resounding defeat they had suffered in the elections.

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Kahlawi was surprised by the leaders ’calls for change, even though they bear a large part of the responsibility for the deterioration of the current political and economic situation, during their participation in successive governments since 2011.

He pointed out that the same faces demanding today a rescue conference along the lines of Reda Belhadj, Salma El Loumi and Mohsen Marzouq, who had previously had a failed experiment to save the party of the late President Beji Qaid Essebsi "Nidaa Tounes".

He pointed out that these parties, which are looking for re-presence and positioning on the political scene within a new party, are preparing for a prospective political leader linked to a specific regional axis to lead the party scene.