Al-Safi Said, a member of the frozen Tunisian parliament, said that President Kais Saied is "imprisoned" inside the Carthage Palace, and that what he called "the agencies" are running things.
In an interview with IFM private radio, Saeed added that he asked to meet the president to deliver him a letter containing an initiative submitted by 70 deputies (about a third of the members of the frozen parliament), but his request was rejected, and the letter was read several times by Security elements before being handed over to the office of the President.
Saeed - a journalist and writer - said that he was forced to walk more than a kilometer in the middle of a crowd from various security sectors, and the message was taken from him and read by a number of security personnel.
He confirmed that he saw security forces "as if she had water in her mouth", indicating that they do not express what they feel and only implement orders.
"I discovered that President Qais Saeed is a prisoner and isolated inside the palace, and it is the agencies that run things," he said.
The aforementioned deputy cited the case of the late Algerian presidents, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and the French, Charles de Gaulle, who ruled under the "organizations".
On July 25, the Tunisian president took exceptional measures, according to which he dismissed Prime Minister Hisham Al-Mashishi, froze the powers of Parliament, and lifted the immunity of deputies, which also included arrests, dismissals and exemptions for a number of officials.