The head of the Tunisian Ennahda Movement, Rached Ghannouchi, said today, Sunday, that the movement is for the formation of an elected political government, and against the formation of a government of technocrats, and at the same time he pledged to work on changing the electoral system to achieve political stability.

Ghannouchi - who heads the Tunisian parliament - added that democracy is based on the rule of the elected parties and councils.

"If we organize the elections, leave their results aside, and form a government of competencies that have nothing to do with the electoral process, the latter has become absurd," he said.

It is noteworthy that Tunisian President Qais Said assigned Hicham El-Mechichi to form a new government on July 25, and the law requires that the government be formed within a month from the date of the assignment.

The government announcement is likely on Monday. This is the third government to be put to the vote in Parliament in less than a year.

Al-Mishishi is an independent person, and he does not belong to any party or political forces, nor was he nominated by any political forces among the nominations that Saeed requested for the position.

Tunisia recently lived through a severe political crisis, as a result of escalating differences between the political parties, and suspicions of conflict of interests that forced Prime Minister Elias Fakhfakh to resign at the time.

It is noteworthy that Al-Meshishi held the position of Minister of Interior in the government of Fakhfakh last February.


The Electoral System It

is noteworthy that the Ennahda movement won a majority of 54 seats in the 2019 elections, but it failed to provide an absolute majority (109 votes) for the government of Habib Jemli, who nominated it after the elections, during the vote of confidence last January.

Ghannouchi said that the electoral system in Tunisia needs to be changed, as it has resulted in a dispersed political scene that has pushed to undermine the country's political stability. He pledged to work within the Assembly of the Representatives of the People to change the electoral system towards a system capable of producing a majority.

According to the current electoral law in Tunisia, voting in parliamentary elections takes place in a single-round list system, and seats are distributed at the constituency level on the basis of proportional representation, taking the largest remainder.

This law was adopted after the 2011 revolution, and lawmakers justified it by blocking the way for any party to dominate the state and government, and reproducing the tyranny.