Tunisian Parliament Speaker and Head of the Ennahda Movement Rached Ghannouchi said that Tunisia has so far avoided bloodshed, noting that he asked his supporters to withdraw from the parliament headquarters the day after President Kais Saied's exceptional decisions to avoid casualties.
In an article published on the website of the British newspaper, The Independent, Ghannouchi said that President Saeed rejects any dialogue, expressing his hope that wisdom will eventually prevail.
He added that through dialogue, a way can be found to end the crisis, which includes not renewing the decision to freeze parliament and appointing a prime minister and government to be voted on by parliament.
The Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament explained that for the sake of a legitimate government, the freezing of parliament should be ended, which must meet to vote on the new government in order to restore democracy and end the dangerous precedent of violating the constitution, as he put it.
In the same article, Ghannouchi warned that the gains of the revolution are under threat after the recent developments, and also warned that the democratic path is in danger.
The Tunisian president says that his exceptional measures, which he announced on the evening of last July 25, are based on Chapter 80 of the constitution, and aim to "save the Tunisian state", in light of popular protests over political, economic and health crises.
However, most of the parties rejected these measures, and the Ennahda movement (53 out of 217 deputies in Parliament) considered them a "coup against the constitution", while other parties supported them, and saw them as a "correction of course."
travel ban decisions
For his part, Counselor at the Tunisian Presidency, Walid Al-Hajjam, said that precautionary administrative decisions to ban travel were taken against a number of people.
He explained that most of them were named in the report of the Anti-Corruption Committee headed by Abdel-Fattah Omar shortly after the revolution, and they were related to corruption files and owed money to the state, according to his description.
He added that these decisions were not issued by the Presidency of the Republic, but by the Ministries of Interior and Justice, but in coordination with the Presidency of the Republic, and said that these decisions are not arbitrary.
The Association of Tunisian Judges and a number of human rights activists had called on the Tunisian security authorities to clarify the reasons why judges, representatives and activists were prevented from traveling.
45 judges also signed a statement denouncing the placement of some judges under house arrest, and calling on the Supreme Judicial Council to defend the independence of the judiciary.