“God and the days are between us.” The Tunisian president opens fire on the parties and promises “traitors”

In a speech that observers described as akin to a declaration of war, Tunisian President Qais Said opened fire on political parties and figures without naming them, accusing them of treason, weaving conspiracies and falling into "the arms of Zionism and colonialism", promising to uncover them and hold them accountable.

The president appeared in a speech he gave during the new government's constitutional oath ceremony, which showed signs of convulsion, to respond to letters and accusations made by some deputies during the session of granting confidence to the Mecheid government, especially from the Ennahda Movement, the Heart of Tunisia and the Dignity Coalition.

Saeed said, "He will not respond to them with the words he listened to yesterday because they are expressions that only arouse contempt and contempt," according to his description.

He vowed angrily that he would not tolerate and hold accountable those who slandered and lied, and “those who opened a house for fatwa to fatwa the constitution,” referring to the determination of these blocs to introduce changes in the composition of the Presbyterian government and accuse the president of overstepping his constitutional powers when he warned against compromising the ministerial composition, especially the ministers of sovereignty.

He added, "God is between us and the days, and the day will come when you will know all the facts without exception, unless there is something related to the duty of caution and caution."

Observers said that the severity of the president's speech and the criticism that he celebrated is an indication of the escalation of differences between him and the Mechanically, and an affirmation of what happened behind the scenes of Said's meeting with the parties when he explicitly called them to overthrow the Meshish government in exchange for a guarantee that Parliament would not be dissolved.

The president called on the new government to stand with him together in the face of what he described as "traitors and the tails of colonialism who sold their consciences and their homeland."

The leader of the Ennahda Movement, Rafik Abdel Salam, described the president's speech as convulsive, calling on him to play his role as an arbitration institution and as a guarantor of the country's unity and stability, away from letters of betrayal.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, he stressed the country's need today in conjunction with the new government taking over its duties for a unifying speech that does not separate, and all parties deal within the rules of the constitution and the logic of the state.

Abdel Salam pointed out that the criticism of the president in the dome of the parliament had previously extended to his predecessors, such as Marzouki and the late President Beji Qaid Essebsi, in the context of the spirit of democracy and differences of opinion, and did not give any justification for the angry and convulsive reactions.

For his part, the head of the "Dignity Coalition" bloc in Parliament, Saifuddin Makhlouf, described the president's speech as a "retaliatory speech" that carries a direct threat to the deputies and the institution of parliament, stressing in a statement to Al-Jazeera Net that "Saeed has become a threat to the state and its stability."

Makhlouf expressed his regret over the accusations that Said made to the deputies of treason and normalization, stressing in return that he was expecting him, in the framework of the new government’s constitutional oath, a catalytic speech and a call for unity and the rejection of disputes in the interest of Tunisia.

Party leaders from the heart of Tunisia rushed to express their position on the president's speech. The leader of the Heart of Tunisia party, Osama Al-Khulaifi, asked in a blog about the parties that Qais Saeed had threatened, and he mocked Saeed's use of the term "colonialism", which he denied during his visit to France, replacing it with The French protectorate.

It is noteworthy that the government of Hisham al-Mishishi took the constitutional oath today in front of President Qais Saeed, pending the formal assumption of its duties tomorrow, Thursday, to replace the caretaker government headed by the resigned Prime Minister, Elias Fakhfakh.