The head of the Ennahda Movement bloc in the Tunisian parliament, Noureddine Al-Beheiri, said that pressure is being exerted from inside and outside the country with Emirati funds distributed to the deputies in order to withdraw confidence from Parliament Speaker Rashid Ghannouchi during the voting session scheduled next Thursday.
Al-Buhairi added, in a statement to a local radio station today, Tuesday, that this step comes within what he described as an Emirati plan to destroy the Tunisian political system, which would start by creating a vacuum in parliament by removing the president and disrupting the recommendation of the next government. Which will push the country towards emptiness, he added.
On the other hand, the leaders of some blocs supporting the withdrawal of confidence from Ghannouchi - in statements to local radio stations - indicated that there were what they considered as attempts to lure a number of deputies with the aim of influencing their position, and pushing them to withdraw their signatures from the no-confidence list.
And leaders of the Renaissance (54 seats out of a total of 217 seats), which until the resignation of the government of Elias al-Fakhfakh was the largest component in the government coalition; They previously referred to Emirati media and political support for moves they say are aimed at a coup against the democratic experience in Tunisia, and presented clues supporting their statements, including the tweets of Dahi Khalfan, deputy chief of Dubai police.
They also indicated that the sit-ins carried out by the Free Constitutional Party bloc (16 seats) are part of what they see as an external plan to eliminate the democratic process in Tunisia.
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The voting session
It is scheduled that the People's Assembly (Parliament) will hold a session tomorrow, during which it will vote on a list to withdraw confidence from Ghannouchi, submitted by 4 parliamentary blocs and independent representatives, and they accuse the speaker of parliament of taking decisions without returning to the parliament office, and making statements regarding external relations It is incompatible with Tunisian diplomacy, according to the text of the regulations.
The voting session will be confidential, and there will be no discussion, and the representatives will be called one after the other to put their papers in the box, and the election of the Speaker of Parliament was conducted in the same way.
Those seeking to remove Ghannouchi from the presidency of the parliament gathered no less than 73 signatures, which is the number necessary to pass the list. The constitutional party bloc is also supposed to vote in favor of the no-confidence list. A member of the "Long Live Tunisia" party (10 deputies) led by former Prime Minister Youssef El-Shahed spoke of collecting more than 109 votes, which is the majority required to withdraw confidence from the Speaker of Parliament.
A few days ago, Ghannouchi expressed his confidence that Thursday's session would be to renew confidence in him, not to withdraw it from him, and he said that he did not come on the back of a tank until he imposed himself on the deputies, adding that he accepted the test and challenge, although it was possible to reject the list of withdrawing confidence from him because it Breaches included.