The chapters of the dispute between the President of the Republic, Qais Saeed, and the Prime Minister, Hisham Al-Mashishi, continue to cast a shadow over the relationship between the two heads of the executive authority, and deepen, according to observers, the political crisis afflicting the country.

The prime minister's decision to appoint former ministers and officials of the ousted President Ben Ali as political and economic advisers sparked a wave of controversy that reached the presidential palace in Carthage, where Saeed announced during a meeting with Al-Mashishi his categorical rejection of these appointments.

Among the names that made a mistake are the former Finance Minister Tawfiq Bakkar and former Ben Ali advisor Al-Munji Safra, who are being pursued by issues of corruption and abuse of influence, as well as holding them responsible for failed economic policies before the revolution.

And in a tone closer to reprimanding, the President of the Republic said during his meeting with Al-Meshishi that there is no room for appointing these persons "who have committed crimes against the Tunisian people and whose cases are still under the eyes of the courts." He pointed out that the people revolted against that old system and sacrificed their blood in order to remove it.

Said El-Mechichi explicitly called for a review of these appointments, stressing that the Tunisians who removed Ben Ali's men from power would not allow their return in any of the state's sites, and he also vowed to hold them accountable.

A cold war


. Observers believe that the differences between Said and al-Mishshi over Ben Ali's ministers are nothing but a continuation of a cold war between the Kasbah - the seat of the presidency of the government - and Carthage, sparked after the president of the republic lifted support for the militia and demanded, according to party leaders, to drop his government in Parliament.

The chapters of the dispute deepened with the crisis of appointing ministers, as accusations were made against the president of the republic of exceeding his constitutional powers, and imposing a group of ministers affiliated with him in the Mishichi government despite the latter’s reservations and the rejection of some of them.

Political leaders and local media had previously confirmed that the relationship of estrangement and estrangement between the prime minister and the president of the republic had reached levels unknown to the state, as periodic meetings between the two heads of the executive authority were absent for more than a week.

Securing a parliamentary belt


, and according to many, the Meshchy seeks to secure his survival at the head of the government, through a political and parliamentary belt led by President Said's archenemy, the Heart of Tunisia party and its president, Nabil Karoui, accompanied by the Dignity Coalition and the Ennahda Movement, as well as attempts to win the Free Constitutional by appointing One of his most prominent current economic advisers is Tawfiq Bakkar and the rest of the ousted men.

The Heart of Tunisia party called in an official statement on Wednesday "to stand with the government and support it, and to reject all forms of discrimination and divisions," as it publicly valued the appointments of ministers and Ben Ali's advisors whom it described as highly qualified.

The position of the President of the Republic rejecting the appointments of the Meshchite sparked a debate within the political parties between Marhab and Opponents, where the leader of the Dignity Coalition, Abdul Latif Al-Alawi, criticized the President of the Republic, calling on him in a lengthy post to respect the constitutional powers and the prestige of the state.

The official spokesperson for the Heart of Tunisia Party, Mohamed Sadiq Jebnoun, renewed his party’s call for the necessity of creating a kind of balance and harmony between the presidency of the government and the republic, away from the logic of victory and scoring political points in order to achieve political stability.

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, he called on all political parties to engage in a comprehensive political reconciliation away from the logic of revenge and revenge, calling on the president of the republic to be an inclusive person, not separate.

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, the leader of the Ennahda Movement, Muhammad Al-Qoumani, expressed his fear of the way the President of the Republic deals with either the Prime Minister or the Speaker of Parliament, which, according to him, establishes the logic of domination and dwarfing the rest of the state's sovereign institutions.

He indicated that he might understand the President's refusal to appoint advisors from the previous system, who would be pursued by judicial files.

But far from "the policy of bashing that he intends during his meeting with any political figure in the country without hearing the point of view of the opposite party."

Constitutional powers


On the other hand, other party leaders appreciated the position of the President of the Republic rejecting these appointments, and the MP for the People’s Movement, Badr al-Din al-Gammudi, told Al-Jazeera Net that what Saeed did was right and at the core of his constitutional powers, far from the logic of conflict and victory.

He stressed that the President - as the primary official responsible for national security - intervened by adjusting the compass, and avoiding the risk of slipping towards suspicious appointments of personalities chased by corruption cases.

Al-Gammoudi accused some parties, foremost among them the Heart of Tunis, of trying to practice "political blackmail" against the prime minister and impose some kind of pressure on him to appoint certain personalities in exchange for securing a parliamentary belt to support his government.

The leader of the democratic current, Muhammad al-Arabi al-Jelsi, considered that the position of the President of the Republic refusing to appoint Ben Ali's ministers is consistent with a previous position announced by his party due to the judicial rulings that pursue these figures while respecting the presumption of innocence.

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, he pointed out that the tense relationship and the radical differences between Saeed and Al-Mishishi are not new.

Rather, it dates back to months in the wake of the government formation crisis and the divergence of views on ministers.

Al-Jallasi asserted that the President of the Republic has the right to express his position on issues of public concern.

On the other hand, he maintained reservations about the way he appeared in front of Al-Mashisi, which was more like "reprimanding and bashing."