A mass rally in the heart of the capital .. Has Ennahda won its bet on the Tunisian street?

Both the Ennahda movement and the opposition left-wing Workers Party organized separate demonstrations in the heart of the capital Tunis, while other political leaders warned of the consequences of mobilizing the street in political battles.

Tens of thousands of Ennahda supporters gathered along Mohammed V Street, which extends to Habib Bourguiba Street in the capital, at a time when the organizers of the demonstration estimated the number of participants at about 250 thousand people, who came from various governorates of the country.

The march, which raised the slogan "Stability and Preservation of Institutions," was attended by prominent leaders in the movement such as Nour al-Din al-Buhairi, Imad al-Hamami and Yamina al-Zoghlami, while the head of the movement, Rashid Ghannouchi, addressed the crowd, amid tight security measures.

In a speech to the crowds, Ghannouchi sent political messages to his opponents before his supporters, calling on the Secretary-General of the Workers' Party Hamma Hammami to join the march organized by the movement instead of demonstrating in another street nearby with his supporters.

"We have one Tunisian state, one constitution, government and parliament, so do not divide us and all problems are solved by dialogue, not by slander and hatred," he said.

He stressed that his party does not want the departure of the prime minister, the departure of parliament, or even the departure of the president of the republic, but he calls on each party to fulfill its role and tasks assigned to it.

Bet was not disappointed

For his part, the leader of the movement, Rafiq Abd al-Salam, considered that today's demonstration confirmed that Ennahda’s bet on the street to defend legitimacy, democracy, state institutions and the constitution in the face of populist tendencies has not failed and was in order.

He added to Al-Jazeera Net, "Although the march is not directed against the president of the republic, we hope that he has picked up the message, and is committed to national consensus and pushes toward dialogue with the rest of the state."

Abd al-Salam renewed the Ennahda movement’s attachment to Prime Minister Hisham Al-Mishishi, calling on President Qais Saeed to open the door to dialogue and consensus for the sake of the country's stability and ensuring the unity of its people and institutions.

The march of the Ennahda movement comes days after the mobilization of it, after the political crisis in Tunisia reached a dead end, after the President persistently rejected the government amendment approved by Parliament, and his reservations about all political dialogue initiatives presented by national parties and organizations.

'Morally bankrupt'

In a stern message, Saeed attacked in a speech, during a visit he made today to the province of Kairouan (center), whom he described as morally bankrupt and driven by political calculations, adding, "You see today how money appears and is wasted in the capital and every evening they talk about bankruptcy."

Coinciding with the Ennahda demonstration, the left-wing Workers Party, led by its Secretary General and its leader Hama Hammami, organized a march in the center of the capital.

The leader of the party, Wael Nawar, told Al-Jazeera Net that the goal of the march was "to sweep the ruling political system as a whole, after proving its failure for a period of ten years of rule."

Nawar pointed out that the Ennahda movement mobilized the street in a demonstration march with corrupt political money on the surface, in order to preserve democracy and in its core it covered the people's basic demands in relation to dignity, health, employment and development.

The Labor Party leader denounced the departure of a ruling party in power to demonstrate against poverty and chaos, and to defend the stability of institutions, even though it caused them.

Hammami had considered in a speech to his supporters that the political crisis in Tunisia was exacerbated by the rivalry of the poles of power in Parliament, the Presidency of the Republic and the Kasbah, at the expense of the people's interests.

It is noteworthy that political leaderships, even from within the Ennahda movement, warned of the consequences of mobilizing the street and transferring political battles from the corridors of sovereign institutions and parties to the field.